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