What's your specialty?

It's foggy today. It feels appropriate to my state of mind. I had a client once, let's say her name was, oh, Elizabeth. She said, I would like my diagnosis to be *Elizabeth*  I told her: That works for me.  I feel the same way about my specialty. I figure it's kind of a priest thing.

I am often asked

What’s your specialty?

I am learning to say

I don’t have one.

Thirty plus years as a priest.

Sixty years of living.

No specialty because that

Might omit

This new person,

These new people,

Who just walked through

The door,

Perched themselves

On the sofa.

I have learned to say

Let’s see

If we can work together.

You are not a diagnosis

Anyway.

Let’s see.