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September 2024

what does your silence say?

it says
what i say you may hear
but i cannot say that you may understand

it says
sink beneath where you float
and you may find rest

it says
the light in your eyes
is trying to get out
not trying to get in

it says
all that is written
must be heard
to be seen

it says
rite/write/right life
in all 3 spellings at once
in one crow’s call

it says
seat yourself in the center of a grove
among stone eulogies and winged bodies
and feel sun light pouring out
of your closed eye lids
making the earth hum within you

it says
lean upon a brick bowl of bones and soil
and learn how to grow
even in spaces the sun does not shine

it says
itself,
through rounds of double helix bird song
woven by the breeze
a bow that pulls melody from the trees
following a distant rhythm that becomes each pathway

it says
I too have skin

it says
let yourself listen to living luxuriously
indulgence is best left to the dead

it says
what i say; it says
for every moment i breathe without utterance
i sink beneath the space where i float
quiet as a corpse
giving my silence the voice to say,

“all of this is always right here simply waiting for you to listen to it”

transcribed September 6th, 2024