new moon

[aliaspseudonym]

The sky breaths slowly,

in & out, in slow steady gusts of darkness,

& the snoring rumble of distant storms unseen

& the sky is empty. I walk softly,

for the night's great eye is closed tonight in slumber

& i wonder

Should i still howl to the empty sky?

 

listening, i hear silence:

i hear the birds shift positions in the bushes.

i hear a the cars race by beyond the houses.

i hear a rabbit startle as i pass.

i hear the wind in the trees, singing.

i hear my own footsteps, soft crunching of shoe-soles on pavement.

i hear my heartbeat, & the slow pulse of the earth beneath.

i hear my thoughts, & the airy drifting of the clouds above.

the silence bids me hold my tongue.

I do not howl to the empty sky,

but sing silence to the night.

& as in silence i hear, so in darkness i see.