Travelers<\/p>\n
This suitcase is the one I took to school,
\nIt has a broken handle you can see,
\nI wedged it in just like a silly fool
\nOn that trip to Yellowstone in ninety-three.<\/p>\n
We’ll have to change the tag to show it’s yours,
\nWe should have bought a new one I suppose,
\nBut handlers get rough with bags on tours.
\nNow don’t forget those extra camping clothes.<\/p>\n
I guess you’ll do just fine without a key,
\nIt’s been gone so long, I can’t remember when,
\nMakes it easy for airport security.
\nHere, let me help you latch it down again.<\/p>\n
I’m glad it can’t tell all the things it’s seen
\nSince it was new and I was seventeen.<\/p>\n
Weaving Lessons<\/p>\n
You nudge my arm,
\nHand me your basket,
\nNeeding some help?
\nYour silence says you can’t answer.
\nAre you nodding your head?
\nI know you can’t hear my words,
\nBut I talk to you as if you can.<\/p>\n
You know I can’t see,
\nPlace my hand on the problem;
\nCan you read lips?
\nSign is not my strong suit.
\nWe’ll have to wing it.<\/p>\n
Your concentration is with me,
\nI straighten the pattern;
\nAn ambitious project,
\nThis triple weave.<\/p>\n
You reach for it,
\nKnow where to go from here;
\nI tap the tub,
\nYou drop it in;
\nReeds need soaking
\nfor a tight weave.<\/p>\n
Weaving words from understanding,
\nRemoving boundaries,
\nCrossing paths
\nOne Summer day.
\nYou touch “Thanks” on my arm;
\n“Come back anytime.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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