Being famous … (12/22/10)
“The River is famous to the fish.
The loud voice is famous to Silence, which Knew it would inherit the Earth …
The tear is famous, briefly, to the cheek …
I want to be famous to shuffling men who smile while crossing streets,
to sticky children in grocery lines; famous as the one who smiled back.
I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous, or a buttonhole;
not because it did anything spectacular,
but because it always re-membered what it could Do.”
~ Naomi S. Nye
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