ABSTRACT
While I hesitate to “explain” any poem, I would say that this poem and solution-focused brief therapy both participate in the tradition of respecting the silences that join us. Steve de Shazer, in particular, was an artist of silence, completely at ease sitting with a client (or with himself) without the need for words simply to fill the spaces. He taught a way of working in which the therapist, in a certain sense, disappears or is forgotten because what is far more relevant is the client’s life, proceeding toward its best unfolding.
