Empath

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…called to the back yard

     going around the side
                          of the house
                                       of his childhood
Pahn sees Athehna                                    
with Yaohwa
and stops to listen to them               

They are speaking

                                 of ordinary things
                                in ordinary language
                       but in the light   of the subconscious
clearly discernable
they are exchanging information

                                                and emotion
                                                   non-verbally

Pahn is feeling left out                                
having missed already
the gossip
and now watching Yaohwa
by chance

                        and by intuition
                                feeling Athehna
Pahn is genuinely jealous                           

He listens in the knowledge                             
that he has this same               
communicative sense
and gathers from the air

                        what is happening to her

Yaohwa leaves

And Pahn takes her aside to ask

                            to be sure

“Are you saying
That you are pregnant?”

She nods                                                 
and the two of them go inside

He speaks to her      for a while                    
trying to determine                 
if he should stay for her
or if she’d rather he left

He can barely feel their separateness
in the open room
but in the passing moments                       
they find a time to pull their minds

                                                                   apart…

…and Pahn is outside again

Ahbnoba comes                                                        
and asks Pahn to turn off the sprinklers
so that her guests                             
will not get wet                      

Pahn goes around front                                  
with Eeunks and Daphnis
to show them how it is done

He is perplexed                                                
that Yaohwa is running sprinklers
in the winter

Trying the first valve
The water comes on around him              

and he is soaked
…                         
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Some of these poems originally appeared in the following publications

Avocet
Dream International Quarterly
mojo risin'
The Muse Apprentice Guild (The MAG)
Transfer

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