silence
nursed from cacti
and a million
grains of sand
in a single square inch
each with its own
eternity
each capable of finding
its way into
a bottle
a beach
or nowhere
at all
each locked in its own
oblivion
secreted from
the buzzards
the lizards
the tumbleweeds
the noon hellfire
and the frigid moonlight
bhagiti 7.30.07 perrysburg, oh