Not Learning Being In Two Places At Once

 

 

It is a landscape

Where sunsets

And sunrises

Share

The space

Of an August

Rain

 

Where

Unshaved men

And women of no

Age

Share sage flower

Without promise

To rub

Their hands

With gratitude

 

Where

Cities of steel

March to ocean fronts

To stay

Away

From what men

Can do

When unwelcomed

To the silence

Of a secret

Whisper

 

Where

Red-tailed hawks

Build their

Eyrie

In brush

Above

A quail nest

To keep them

Safe

 

When

Sunsets and sunrises

Make the

Landscape

For August

Rain

In the

Same space

Where once

Unshaved men

And women of no

Age

Rubbed their hands

With

Sage

Flower

And smiled

To

Secret

Whispers

 

August 21, 2025

©Vahé A. Kazandjian, 2025

I took this photo in front of the Colosseum in Rome