Word of Mouth
Naomi Shihab Nye
"My Friend's Divorce"
How I wish I could wrap this up in the perfect Japanese translation and give to my best friend. It was so simple and bare, deceptively so, that for a second, I forgot the title of the poem and began to drift away from it. But it hadn't rambled off course as I believed it had, but, instead, brought the expression of the subject matter full circle to something extraordinarily resonant. It somehow straddles hopefulness with 20-20 hindsight, which I think is a remarkable feat. It's by far one of my favorite poems thus far in Word of Mouth.
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