Learning Three-Year-Old

He yells

something

in three-year-old,

a language I’m only

partially proficient in;

so I paid it no mind.

I was playing tag-along;

he’d only met me

a half-hour earlier,

I assumed he was

talking to his nanny,

who is fluent and practiced.

“There’s a park!

There’s a park!

There’s a park!”

He repeated

with urgency

and bouncing.

Nanny offers a quick tutorial

on listening: “Jake—

he’s talking to you.”

“Oh. . .

There is a park.

Good eye!”