(BUT, BUT) (NOT SAID) (DON'T READ OUT LOUD)

 

(BUT. BUT) (NOT SAID) (DON’T READ OUT LOUD)

If I am quiet enough

I can hear

everything that is said

I don’t even have to be quiet

        So many languages

Karen speaks to me in color

            in fabric

After she listens

She wraps me in squares of cotton

Jim Bodeen

25 October 2024