Listening outside the mirrored door

I am reading Seven Thousand Ways to Listen by Mark Nepo.  No, there are not seven thousand chapters.  Today I am on to Listening to all that is not said.  This is a very verbal family.  Very verbal.  I will have to work hard to find the spaces to hear around the words.  Then again, maybe not.  There are always unsaid things.

I listen from my corner

Of the bedroom.

The mirrored door is angled

So I can see anyone

In the hallway,

But they

Can*t see me.

This

Is a perfect arrangement.

I may as well

Be on the moon

But the moon

Wouldn*t let me listen.

I understand the sound

Would be lost

In outer space.

I read a book on listening

Small snippets

With questions at the end

Of every short chapter,

Questions which suggest

Ways to meditate.

Instead I apply each chapter

To what I hear

Outside the mirrored door