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