Our Language
Published in
Jan 14, 2022
Teach me a new language.
When I lean close to whisper
I don’t want to use other people’s words,
the whole world staring over my shoulder —
cop’s flashlight in the window
of my words.
Teach me words that only we understand
alone, together,
looking
through one-way mirrors
at their world.
(written March 9, 1968, New Haven, CT. revised Jan. 25, 2018, Milford, CT)