Dostum

Paul BIANCHI

To know you through a language not my own

To speak with hesitation, always imprecise, always approximate

Every conversation is a poem full of metaphor and indirect allusion

A game of guessing intents and desires

I cannot cope with a full table at conversation information overload

I smile weakly and nod appropriately,

I hope

But we know each other better for all the attention we pay each other's words

From different reference frames we suspend judgement and speak without fear

And wonder at how such different starting points bring us so close dostum

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