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Hokkaido: aerial view
Barry Spacks
Words About Silence

A fineness of touch but with stove-mittens on
is this speaking of words
about silence.
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We do our best work
with a rushing of fingers...
gaze at each other and understand.
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A hermit meets a CEO
in brotherly silence, but soon they part
to re-memorize their lines.
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After rumble and stir,
the long day's babble,
comes wakefulness to widen the eyes.
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Sound speaks from silence, great wave arriving
years rolling in
from far Hokkaido.