Saturday, July 30, 2011

Her Friend


Image by Kelly Cheng

Her Friend

she doesn't know
her friend has come

she won't be able
to write down
anything he says

he won't have a place
in her notebook
along with Kabir
and the Theravadins

many years later
she will remember
sitting with an old man

a curious nakedness
of thought
between them

that nakedness
that transparency
will lead her home.

Leonard Cohen

from BOOK OF LONGING.

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