Student

I am an eager student —

I pore over the text

as meaning pours in

Something deep inside

soaks it up, stretches out,

like roots, like leaves, like wings

This is not something

for me to tuck away,

to tell myself I may use later

This is breath, this is sight,

this is the sense of things,

these are my steps along

the present path of what I am.

©Wendy Mulhern

August 27, 2019