Lawrence Hall
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The Writer, the Reader, and the Synapse Between Them
Per V.B. & W.K.
From the writer to the
reader
From the speaker to the
listener
Like
a 16-year-old crossing a field at noon
A little word has a lot of ground to cover in the heat
A mile of open ground to a
wall and some trees
Where confusion does not
want it to arrive
From the speaker to the listener
If we send a little word across
a field
But stay behind ourselves
and only watch
To see what happens - how
responsible are we
If the word dies screaming
among the wheat
From the writer to the
reader
From the speaker to the
listener
Like a 16-year-old
crossing a field at noon
A little word has a lot of
ground to cover in the heat
16
January 2021
