An Old Book

[71degrees]

I am not the greatest man,
so she says: "you are here".
She will settle like the dust
on an old book,
re-read too many times to open up again.

-BW BRINE

The short ones require a leap...something for me to care. What book? (that might help me...maybe in the title if you don't want to add anything to the poem?) I'm not sure the whole book could be dust. How "could" it open up again? Dust "on" the book, okay. What's the difference between "read" or "re-read" and why the hyphen? Too many questions for me...need some direction to help me as a reader.

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