Learning a New Language

Listen
          to the way the wind
carries my words,
              spins them,
                             brushing away husks—
              then unwraps,
                     lays bare, and
                            scrapes away
                                    the dried up coverings 
                                          to what I want to say

Let's meet over coffee
         or share a meal—
spread our words across the table
             peel away their shells.
                         strip down,
                                  prune, crop, pare
                                       what remains
                                                and talk

Poetic Asides prompt
PAD challenge