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Monday, August 31, 2020

SILENCE






          Silence is like snow after all.
         It will fall, if you let it, 
         all around you.
         It will surround you and grow deep
         until you are compact in it
         and can neither act  
         nor speak.














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2 comments:

Tony said...

Nice.

August 31, 2020 at 10:31 PM
Pier Roberto Giannelli said...

My poem was written in response to Kay Ryan’s “Silence,” published in her collection Elephant Rocks (1996) and included in her anthology The Best of It (2010).

April 3, 2026 at 9:01 PM

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