The vocabulary of whisper
begins with fog over the river,
a white break in the cloud cover,
the great mastiffs, perhaps a coyote,
silent music between two false indigos.
a
Where do we go from here?
Once I woke to a rusty sky,
huge chunks of degraded iron
littering the landscape
that only a few days ago
green with a path of turquoise,
a line of pink, a flowering succulent.
The season does not die with a spasm,
but the silence of the easy act of breath.
a
In the language of hush,
a softness of vowel–
within the texture of skin,
warmth, a stretch of s’s–
Everything too loud but not this,
one finger sighing against another
walking in the fog, together.
Michael’s latest poetry collection, How Do We Create Love, is published by Cholla Press Needless Press and is available here.
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Michael H. Brownstein's latest volumes of poetry, A Slipknot to Somewhere Else (2018) and How Do We Create Love (2019) were both published by Cholla Needles Press.
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