By Katie Okhuysen

if you take the time to watch it slide by
if only for a split second
and in peripheral vision
(be still for just a moment)
if you take the time to sit in it
appreciate the slanting of light
first like a cloud then like a razor’s edge
(appreciate the way it cuts)
the air changes too and
if it takes you to the field
if you acknowledge the warm heart beating in the tangled grass
(nod in agreement)
it will let you watch
as it closes in on itself but only temporarily
as it has so many times before
it stops and as you try to pry the stale words from your tongue
(think to yourself)
this is an old story reading us
over and over and again and again
I have known all the seasons I have lived
all the same questions
all the same answers

Katie Okhuysen is a freshman undergraduate student at St. Edward’s University. She enjoys reading poetry and attempting to write her own. This is her first work featured in New Literati.

Photo by Jasmine Kim.