Some Varieties of Silence
by @david-adamson
Swarming: bees above a skylight.
Breath forming: a child asleep in fading light.
Innuendo: eyes when a kiss ends.
Before crescendo: the audience as the curtain descends.
Age: a handwritten journal from a wandering liar.
Exhausted rage: Slauson Avenue after the Rodney King fire.
Utility: a brown wooden desk with empty drawers.
Apostrophe: an oration delivered near crashing shores.
A life destroyed: an Olympia typewriter covered since 1975.
The void: a poem read aloud, addressee not alive.