The Faces of My Colleagues

On a Zoom this week

Face-to-face with colleagues

Close up to grit and grace.

What an honor to see

The unvarnished fight

In their warriors’ eyes.

Catching an occasional

Glint of lightness

In the conversation

Moved me most of all.

Amid this current moment

Perhaps I’m not alone

To look around

At my colleagues

And see the heroes there.