When Human Beings Talk

When human beings talk,

some unseen creatures gawk.

Dimensional amazement at us

is their fare. Though

we don’t know they’re there,

we’ll sometimes, vaguely, through

the air, sense waves of their

bewilderment and joy. They watch

our gestures, hear our voices

and each one rejoices

in the miracle we manifest.

Passing every test – possessed

of language, and the rest –

we seem to them to speak to

and to hear each other with such

strange unplanned, offhand

abandon. Conversation is more

beautiful than we may

understand. So when we talk,

they gawk, and think we’re grand.

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