The Rev James Warnke is a psychotherapist in private practice, a consultant in blindness and visual impairment, an Episcopal priest and spiritual director in the Diocese of Newark, former chairperson of the psycho-social division of the International Association for the Education and Rehabilitation of the Blind and past president of the New York Milton H Erickson Society for Psychotherapy. He’s also a kick-ass sixth-degree black belt. 

Two Dusty Guitars
By James Warnke

Two dusty guitars
sit side by side
like an old married couple
in bed.

In the room next door
an old married couple
sit side by side
in bed.

Two dusty guitars
long unplayed
gathering dust
out of tune
still strung.
Two dusty guitars
hoping
in silence
to be touched
to be tuned
to be played
in duet
one more time.