The Person Who Knows ____ AKSHR

The Person Who Knows

Every person I work with knows 

something better than me. 

My job is to listen long enough 

to find it and use it

 

My mother would like this porch swing,

this tree and that tree,

the sunlight leaning.

I am still enough

for a doe. Her white tail alert,

her soft eyes. She comes to me slowly,

places her head on the porch railing.

We look to understand each other. 

"You are sad," she says. I am sad.

____ AKSHR