Thursday, April 14, 2011

Slightly revised poem from 2008--WATCHING YOU WRITE

sometimes I can’t read the words



you are writing



on the yellow legal pad



as a part of therapy



for your post-aneurysm brain







sometimes I can read the repeated letters



and fragments of words



and wonder



what you are trying



to say







your mind can still speak in complete sentences



but the process of translation



from brain to hand to pen to paper



is far from precise







and when I don’t understand



and the process of writing begins again



I pray I get your meaning this time



for your sake

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