JUST A PREFACE

Let's try to be slow and steady

in this silence, her silence.

Let's try to sing the wood

with the branches,

in their breath and 

perspiration of loneliness.

Let's try to improvise

another sun and sea

and abandon

the familiar, impending

sense of drowning.

Let's embrace silence,

her silence, let's embrace

the crime and rhyme

of that silence.

And let's dare

bash hush and shush,

and cry high ash

to the sky.