Poems on the topic: silence

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Dave Bonta

Body builder

body built of water which hand is first hand water built of ice and a little quiet

Dave Bonta

mind fixed on my art I have been silent and given little of myself the moon at noon is a brother to no one

Dave Bonta

hear how a raven can be true but broken how the quiet comes to speak privately like a kiss and art inside-out is heart once again

Dave Bonta

snow is the first new world we howl at lying down in it at first without a sound

Dave Bonta

a survey is asking nothing I answer nothing for fear of it being me

Dave Bonta

The fabled decision tree dangles head-down, rootless on the blackboard in my dream. Each new pair of twigs reaches like a tuning fork into silence.

Dave Bonta

seeing without breaking I practice for nothing more than the present like a sea fallen quiet with the settling of other lives

Dave Bonta

I drink her wine but not her coffee I am buying love not an ear evening comes with few words to my bed

Dave Bonta

time to visit but no talk in us and the land becomes like company her house on the sand will make little use of it

Dave Bonta

morning put me into debt I surrendered my answers silent as money this heart little bull in a well

Dave Bonta

gentlemen of fine discourse like birds on a line I am silent with my memory of being stone

Dave Bonta

I wake to her silence tired of being read by others her other face against my heart her body in my hands as bland as a letter from sea

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