An Ode to Silence

(now the ears of my ears awake and

now the eyes of my eyes are opened) — E.E. Cummings


Laboring-room of the whispers of God, so still —

fixed like a weighted blanket covering my ears being


bathed in the B-flat of matter and space where

the boom of a blackhole still cellos at fifty-six


octaves below middle-C — steadily trickling a deeper

Yes — a resonance that metaphysicians have had some


trouble describing to identify. Yet here I’ll try. You’re a noise

so unworthy of the demeaning of colors — unworthy of


“white” noise or “brown” noise. Some may say you’re

“black” but that would betray the eventual uplifting of your


stare – your enlightening air, and the snuggling within my

innermost ears. You are transparent, as glass – more quiet


than the soil which's played by the fingertips of trees…

I turn to you, though I’m wary of your omnipresence –


so god-like: whose center is everywhere but whose

circumference is nowhere for those who are schooled


in the sound of their breath, in the dialect of stones,

in the drumming of stars. Yours is the magic between


our musical notes, and the final proof between true lovers —