🔴 How to NOT Talk to a Deaf Person - Jana Brody

Acrylic on canvas

27 × 23 inches

Copyright Jana Brody

LOVE POEM WITH PARTIAL HEARING LOSS, by Lisa Bass

I might ask you to repeat yourself

tonight, if the crowd

is chatty or the background music

is cracked up or you clink

your fork against

your cocktail plate or

if you mumble. If we both love

the block letters

in this oil painting

and you point

without letting go

of my hand

at how they tilt

across the canvas

and our words

start to layer, tumble

over one another,

I might track

the movement

of your lips,

try to discern

what you want

me to know. I don’t want

The poem in its entirety is available at the gallery