The Most Sensitive

In an old half-round classroom with ascending rows

of seats           the observing teacher says

"from Vehlona’s writing

 we can tell something about her

that she is

the most sensitive person

               in the class”

and Vehlona

         embarrassed

                                                 to be so exposed

flees the wooden seats             into the streets             and 

Pahn sitting near       hurls himself from the room

desperately

to catch her and tell her

he doesn’t know what he will say

                                to tell her

                                              to tell her

 

He can’t bear

            to let such a sensitivity                                           

 fade from his life                                                         

            down a road                                         

                   into distance                                      

                      and be gone                                    

                        for always…