To David

We never did finish our conversation

about God. But I don’t think

anything was missing.

I remember reading Walt Whitman

to you in the hospital. You,

stoned out on medication. Your wife said

she had never seen one man read poetry

to another before.

You told me you loved me.

I didn’t think you’d die.

We didn’t finish our conversation about God,

the one we’re having

right now.

∞

From the Spring 1995 issue of Inquiring Mind (Vol. 11, No. 2)

Dan Clurman is co-owner of coaching and consulting firm Communication Options (www.comoptions.com), a senior adjunct professor at Golden Gate University, and a certified Feldenkrais® practitioner. His publications include Conversations With Critical Thinkers; a book of poetry called Floating Upstream; and (with Mudita Nisker) Money Disagreements: How To Talk About Them. He also draws koan-like cartoons; his book You've Got to Draw the Line Somewhere is available at www.dantoons.com.

By Dan Clurman

From the Spring 1995 issue of Inquiring Mind (Vol. 11, No. 2)

Text © 1995–2020 by Dan Clurman

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