3769. TELLTALE WAYS

TELLTALE WAYS

You've got those telltale ways of looking  -

at the scarf around the wanderer's neck,

at the night, coming in along the horizon.

There is nothing to compare.

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View but once the sacred vessel, the

charge, the willow. (There is a quiet

voice, trying to talk. It is cast aside,

and alone  -  one within the many).

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I listen to sounds.

They pass me as if I were blind.

Each one, with a shape and a

circumference, seems to come

from someplace else.

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I understand why the

 blind person squints.