I am quiet in a line of on-lookers, big-thinkers, hell-raisers I sing a song to a corner in the room It winks and blinks along the beat as Large shadows confidently raise their arms in triumph.
I am sitting still, a floating ocean depth silence Watching waves crash and clatter miles overhead-- What fun they must be having out there in the world! Where the blue is sometimes yellow or pink and All one knows is not only the dark, deafening hush of Blue--Where The colors really taste like they advertise: Savory sweet honey orange, supple plump green melon, Ripe for the picking, these--
These are the pickers. With their power-tool loudness, their "I can fix it!" The red-runners, the green-makers. Their lawns rolling out like gold ****** dresses Reveling in their own chaste gold underskirts under a matching Gold sun The earth bowing her shoulders to make room
I am the crisp subtle crunch between bites The shamed blouse of the ***** The sufficiently watered bud among a field of tall daisies The pause in your breath The silence of an empty house
The quiet lemon shavings left on The quiet cutting board, Bleeding rind by way of knife
The metaphor in a poem -- waiting in quiet verse To rear its head to the reader
How many empty glass bottles can you shove into a bag Before it all leaks out the bottom I am the bottom A soft reflection in the train-car window
I see you all. I hear you.
I don't know quite yet if I understand you Rambling on in high buildings with your ***** reared high. Whether love is just temporary obsession or If one can make it to death without truly living.
But I do know, quite often, that there is meaning In complete Silence.