"Be quick, but don't hurry." --John Wooden
At the clotted airport cafe, a holiday swarm:
the woman orchestrating sandwiches,
unrushed but quick, wears a hajib--
a scarf that finishes by falling
to the middle of her back. Forest green.
A light-gray top and elegant black
trousers accompany. Llke me,
she's part of this society, I'm equal
to her, except if I worked at
the sandwich station in this
bee-hive moment, I'd be fired,
a mercy. Something
about forest green, light gray,
and black: austere, soothing.
Evergreens, mist rising from a river.
hans ostrom 2022
