Image: Kathryn Yingst
Let’s sit down, you and I, and talk.
Here, under the wheeling gulls
Overlooking the sea, teeming with life
Beneath the expansive summer sky
Trivia doesn’t matter.
Let’s go deeper.
What has changed in us over this months?
What have we learned?
How might the months of suffering
Observed and experienced
Have made us different—
Transformed us?
How do we want our lives to be going forward?
Before the world grabs our attention again
And tries to catch us in its frantic whirl
Let’s resist.
Let’s sit down, you and I and talk.
Sudie Blanchard