Beans

This smoothing truth

silences the petty bean counter

who tallies wrongs

and weighs the price

of full forgiveness

It spills the beans

(shiny and hard, 

skidding and bouncing) —

they roll off to find

their ground, their soil,

their splitting and swelling

and becoming

And as for us —

this truth counts us whole,

counts us in.

©Wendy Mulhern

January 14, 2016