Tuesday, September 29, 2020

Trevor’s Poem

Trevor’s Poem



I am

the tear 

on the hungry child's cheek,

the callous 

on the old farmer's hand,

the wrinkle 

around the worried mamí’s eye,

the blister 

on the tired campesino's foot.


I am 

a human question mark

at my writing table

In ordinary time.



- Trevor Scott Barton, poems for a brown-eyed girl, 2020

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