Conversation

Conversation began slowly 
Like a train just beginning it’s journey
A journey with no destination 
No vision mapped out 
But to go up and down
Round and round 
over well known bridges
Through lesser known tunnels
Picking up speed until dinner was served
Delicious, mmmmm
Yum!
This is wonderful!
I can’t eat another bite.
Birthday cards their own topic of conversation
Amusing, kind and charming, witty and artistic
Conversation slowed
Watches checked, eyelids fluttered
at the journey’s end of a lovely evening.

“We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.”

~ J.D.Salinger,  Franny and Zooey