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Without Question I Am
     by Mike White

 

The blind man

on the crowded night bus,

 

tap-tapping his way

toward a dark window

 

mirroring the lot of us,

refusing

 

with a brisk wave

of his hand my hand,

 

which he knows

without question I am

 

offering.

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First published in One.

 

 I thought this to be a suitable poem to (re)publish in a magazine dedicated to the nomadic life.  True, the distance traveled in the poem is modest, but I was interested in the ways that we often discover ourselves in strange places (like a bus in the middle of the night!), places where the familiar boundaries separating inside and outside, self and other, are wonderfully permeable.

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MIKE WHITE is the author of How to Make a Bird with Two Hands (Word Works, 2012) and Addendum to a Miracle (Waywiser, 2017), winner of the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize.

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