LOOKING THROUGH BOTH SETS OF EYES

 

LOOKING THROUGH BOTH SETS OF EYES

What do others do

when everything--

I mean, the only one one’s ever loved

disappears behind swinging doors

Walk the hallways

Look at the art on the walls

Write in the notebook

Any of it can bring trouble

What I saw

she never could

It helped me see

what I couldn’t see

through the alternative

lens—then again,

and later, to see

with ordinary eyes

what I’d seen under

medicine’s dizziness.

Ordinariness of the third eye

Third ear listening

Jim Bodeen

2 October 2024