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Where You Look

I heard that Truth rides round on whispers...

Jodie Meyn
Nov 10, 2023
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Publisher’s Note: Today’s piece is a guest post from

Jodie Meyn
who writes
You are Here
, the life and letters of a Midwest Housewife.

close-up photography of brown leaves
Photo by Kristian Seedorff on Unsplash

Where You Look

I heard that Truth rides round on whispers
Tumbles out of mountain streams
All coldness and motion
The coming and going of a notion

Or it smacks you while you’re standing still
Or taking the wobbly route of falling leaves
Breezing by in caves and brooks
Understood in glances, looks.

It cannot be in thunderous maelstroms
Whipping wind and gray noise
The ground shifting under foot
The fog of ideas, ash and soot

We know this Contemplation: Silence
Decreed by Holy books and Poets.
Iambic, a heartbeat teachers push,
Muses of Flow, librarians shush.

But always there’s some scuttlebutt
Some cacophonous distraction, for example,
The ladies talk of nail polish that glistens -
The Poet in me listens.

Read more from Jodie at:

You are Here

Life and Letters of a Midwest Housewife, age 44
By Jodie Meyn

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