Static

Dave BontaContemplative

while sparrows & kinglets while jays while aerodynamic oak leaves

I sat inside with a silence well past the age when it could ever get pregnant

mouse nests in the furnace were converted to ash & heat

a silence that sounded very much like static

white-throated ruby-crowned blue

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