What Happened?
Even though I was the one
Who discontinued writing
Still
I wish I knew
What happened
To my deaf friend Ivonne Mquadi
I Googled her the other day
The engine didn’t yield
Instead it helpfully suggested
That it may be wiser
If I search for something else
I hadn’t thought of her at all
The last ten years
Why
All of a sudden
Now
She comes on striding
With her soft unfastened shoes
Walking though my mind
As though crossing our old campus
To come to class
Where I
Her notetaker
Would write
What the professor said
In larger letters
For her departing eyes
