Saturday, March 29, 2014

here again

Here

Here

Here

Hear

Ear

Peer

Pier

Pear

Wear


Where

here

Taste

Hear

See

touch

the

Pear

Bear

Bare

Fair

Here

Everywhere here

Here is here

and no where

else

where

no wear is bare

she wears no wear    no thing

he is barely here

nothing but here

hear this bare thing

bare a thing  breathe thing

here

is my breath

here am i

not anymore!

YOU are here now

now is here

now is hardly heard

heartedly heard  loud or keen ears

tears

ears

eyes

and nose

give us hear

deliver us here

yesterday i walked a blind man through our coop

in the cradle of my arm he rested his arm lightly and precisely a step behind me

from my motion he could feel where he was

each next step following mine

my here becoming his

angling around the isles

slowly

taking out of his bag the empties so i could find the new

i keep looking into his wide open eyes

looking for here

here i am

looking intently at him

wanting him to see me

wanting to see him seeing

i am here

and he was here so present to me

in breadth  voice  body

present and here

together

with each step when i helped him pack his 3 bunches of organic bananas, almond milk, hazlenuts and 3 bottles of hydrogen peroxide

he liked threes

and liked to know where things were

here, no, no, give me the tamari almonds in this hand so i can put them here

to know that they are not the whole blanched almonds similar in touch that i will but there

here and there

hear and there we were

i walked him out in the slightest rain

when he told me he could see until he was twelve

he asked me to cross him in the middle of the stree

really i said, i can take you to the corner

amused, he said, no show me what you got, and off we went

my eyes were never so open

as we crossed looking here and there

on the other side we parted

i was here

and

he elsewhere












1 comment:

  1. This is a fantastic poem, Papa. It really seems like something I would write also, and I love your introduction and how it led to your experience helping someone that lacks sight.

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