What You Say / What I Hear
Words carried on the wind
mouth to ear
Translations in our brain
You say something about politics
about health / about books
I hear something about
connection / about the two of us
sharing space and years
sharing ourselves
with each other
I say something about the cat
about trees / about politics
you hear something about
harmony / about both of us
understanding
and believing
the same
Or something like the same
as though we two
are something like one
Perfect vibration
Sally Zakariya’s poetry has appeared in some 75 print and online journals and been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. Her most recent publication is Muslim Wife (Blue Lyra Press, 2019). She is also the author of The Unknowable Mystery of Other People, Personal Astronomy, When You Escape, Insectomania, and Arithmetic, and other verses, as well as the editor of a poetry anthology, Joys of the Table.
