‘Music needs silence / more than silence needs music.’ New poetry by Rae Armantrout.
The trees, good Seraphim,
begin to sing
at dawn
about making sugar
out of light
and the happy traffic
between high and low –
as if that were all
*
I expect compensation
for all I don’t
say –
for each time I stop
before coming
to an obvious conclusion
or an uncertain end –
for my discretion.
*
(Music needs silence
more than silence needs music.)
Photograph © Alexander Tiupa
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