Insight
I met a blind man on the trail
accompanied by two sighted friends
who offered to let me pass them by.
I elected to remain, standing,
almost alone, with my eyes closed,
and breathed in the first decaying scents
of the oncoming Fall and heard
the talking breeze that carried hawks
he had seen before me.
Winner, 2013 Poetry in Motion Contest, Metro Arts in Transit, St. Louis, Missouri
(photograph taken 9-30-11 at Castlewood State Park, St. Louis County, Missouri)
