IT IS THIS QUIET

• it is this quiet the day makes along
• windows, it is the brush, the sudden
• leap and spin of the cat, it is the
• plants breathing water, trying to
• shun the dust, it is the pinch of skin
• when I look for you on myself, it is
• tiny shells in a bigger shell, it
• is the plink. plink. of the chimes in
• porch wind, it is one single lash bent
• the wrong way to tickle my watering
• eye, it is the breathing of dust, the way
• you used to turn away, it is the quiet
• almost infinite breathing in of dust