The echoing cavity: an
ache in sound. I tell you:
it is pauses
we should listen for,
the stop in the watch,
the hiccup that means
light is frozen
for once. Too many
think movement is a key,
something that turns into life.
Think of the period and what
it avoids; the desire that only syntax
extinguishes: words
(at least) do not move
once they have died to paper.
© 2003 Jody Azzouni