the little monk

the little monk

the little monk sees and listens to the world with the eyes and ears of his heart

when the little monk was a baby, his mommy talked to him in the language of poetry. “Amo el trozo de tierra que tú eres...I love the handful of earth you are,” she whispered as she reached up into the blue sky for a peach or down into the brown earth for a tomato as he was bundled on her back

there is much the little monk wants to write to the world, but he can’t find the words, he tries to make his life a poem, and a story and a song

- Trevor Scott Barton, “the little monk,” 2020