Heart-Mind

Merges in thought

In song
the heart
merges
in thought
both limbs
and brain
from neck
extended
all love catches
in sorrow’s rain.

T.P. Wilkinson, Dr. rer. pol. writes, teaches History and English, directs theatre and coaches cricket between the cradles of Heine and Saramago. He is author of Unbecoming American: A War Memoir and also Church Clothes, Land, Mission and the End of Apartheid in South Africa. Read other articles by T.P..