Talking with Thomas Merton

I was talking with Thomas Merton,

well, actually, I was talking and he

was listening, that period of silence

each day those Trappists do,

you know. Silence forces you

to listen. So we talked, or rather

I talked, he never said a word

but he spoke

of everything,

like a child,

he was a child, you know,

once.

Related: My post this week at Tweetspeak Poetry on Thomas Merton's In the Dark Before Dawn.

Photo of Thomas Merton via the Thomas Merton Society of Canada.