nude and vibrant silence
silence
spread round like sour milk's hot press
(locked, all doors locked down)
silence no longer the absence but rather apotheosis of sound, silence a feeling, lappable, a discretion of tastes, a fever
silence the gathering and the prophecy
(i will do such things, such things, such open-sound things)
(i cling to
your shirt as if
to the petals
the stamen
clings
fearful of
bareness)