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Silence Speaks For Itself

from Fulcrum by Sue Ann Harkey | Organism

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SILENCE SPEAKS FOR ITSELF

let the silence speak for us
even though it speaks for itself

I won't come between you and your city
it's about the cities more than us

he warns me
he is trying to show me
what I neglect to see
again and again
it comes up
I notice, because it's what I avoid

hands clutched
inter woven red
circuit
watching why
asking why
tracking why

I saw him only twice
slowed my pace as he caught my eye
on the bench in the sun
in the middle of the movement
weaving a basket most efficiently
smile from inner knowledge
an aging Asian man,
invitingly busy
defying our culture by honoring his own
Tompkins Square for acceptance
I meant to sit with him one day
to watch him work and the movement play

Jaipong Bath
open to the movement
matterless
The Universe
rising through my spine

I knew I would see him again
the doubtful one,
the suspicious one
poking at the fire,
any distraction will do
face false from protection
voice careful of meaning
witness the spirit withdrawing
covering its tracks as it goes

I could show you how it
rocks me to and fro

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from Fulcrum, released May 5, 1997

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Seattle - New York - London | free improvisation | prepared guitar | folktronica | weird american | indie | alternative | singer | songs | instrumentals | underground | DIY

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