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.