IF I HAD ADAM’S HAND

            for Adam, tailor, waiting in the refugee camp in Chad

 

it would be still as glass;

it would know how to hold onto the smile of a stranger

as if it were food;

it would know how to dig for water in the desert;

it would know how to sew and shape cloth;

it would know how to wash blood

from the body of his son;

it would know how to make at tent

in the terrible camps of Chad;

it would know how to wait;

it would shine.

 

             -------------Wendy Morton

 

Wendy Morton has published 3 collections of poetry, and a memoir, entitled Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast. She lives in Sooke, B.C., Canada. She believes in the impossible.

 

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