Posts filed under ‘Chapbook’
about avoiding speech
shared silences
i wonder if you think
you’ve robbed me of my words.
you gave me something precious:
knowledge, and my only thanks
can be silent.
i used you as an augury.
i thought to have no choice.
the echo you may await can never come.
i have
you see
achieved, in that tiny matter
silence.
it is complete.
[Selah.]
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The relationship to the mentioned hexagram is via a rather different interpretation, incorporating 24. This poem is about the writer committing an error by not attempting to act with ‘firm correctness’. It is also a very dour picture of the future, but then this is merely a story. One hopes.
