Wandering around the Albuquerque Airport Terminal, after learning
my flight had been delayed four hours, I heard an announcement:
“If anyone in the vicinity of Gate A-4 understands any Arabic, please
come to the gate immediately.”Well—one pauses these days. Gate A-4 was my own gate. I went there.
— From “Gate A-4” by Naomi Shihab Nye
This is the start of a beautiful prose poem worth two minutes of your time to read, and just the kind of thing that I am happy to read today.
Read the full thing at Nye’s page at poets.org
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Love this, Chris. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you Chris. Well worth the read!
Thanks for sharing this Chris. So beautiful and hopeful. It was just what I needed. xo
OMG. That is so lovely. It’s the world I want to live in too. I love that it also feels like an affirmation of the post I wrote a few days ago about hope. We all need kindness and hope so much these days. Thank you for sharing this.