tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4175507488676834632024-03-13T11:37:49.871-07:00And The Shoes Will Take Us There...Unknownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15855933441580950132noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-417550748867683463.post-27190913192088251652012-02-24T13:46:00.007-08:002012-02-24T13:51:42.957-08:00AND THE SHOES WILL TAKE US THERE IN SPITE OF THE CIRCUMFERENCE<div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Which world? </span></i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I wonder as the therapist tells me my son <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> will never be able to live within it <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> Unless<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Yes. I see the posed photos on her desk <i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> (daughter? husband?) </span></i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">she points to the chart <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> which says my nine year old son is really five<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">She says my son’s narrow interests (mathematics, Weird Al) <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> will not allow him to enter <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> the vast circumference of the universe<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I stare into her double chin, down to the bunions on her feet <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> pot belly, shirt tucked neat in her pants<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">She quotes Mel Levine who says <i>kids who are not well-rounded can not succeed</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">She sends me to a room where I pay $117 for the hour<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">A screaming infant reaches for her mother’s glasses, throws them on the floor<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Are you mad at me? </span></i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">my son asks as we walk out the door<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I bend down, hold him so tight in my arms <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">So tight the green trees<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">So tight the blue and distant distant<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Shape of my epiphany (were it half round, half yellow)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">My son’s small body, his heart pounds against my chest <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> and this world<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Of detritus and oblivious footnotes<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">How the fluid gold floats<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">How sound fills<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Space and captures the tiniest beyond<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Particles, waves, <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Mass of sunlight wrapped around our legs<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Our hands<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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