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By Elder Almeida

Silence

There is the sudden silence of the crowd

above a player not moving on the field,

and the silence of the orchid.

The silence of the falling vase

before it strikes the floor,

the silence of the belt when it is not striking the child.

The stillness of the cup and the water in it,

the silence of the moon

and the quiet of the day far from the roar of the sun.

The silence when I hold you to my chest,

the silence of the window above us,

and the silence when you rise and turn away.

And there is the silence of this morning

which I have broken with my pen,

a silence that had piled up all night

like snow falling in the darkness of the house—

the silence before I wrote a word

and the poorer silence now.

Billy Collins

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01 – Sontag Shogun – “It Billows Up” (00:17)

02 – Sontag Shogun – “The Musk Ox” (07:51)

03 – Exit North – “Bested Bones” (12:31)

04 – Thom Yorke – “Unmade” (17:14)

05 – William Ryan Fritch – “Lauren's Love” (21:30)

06 – PJ Harvey – “The Moth (featuring Lily James)” (25:29)

07 – Chilly Gonzales and Jarvis Cocker – “Room 29” (28:44)

08 – Ludovico Einaudi – “Seven Days Walking Day 1 - Low Mist” (31:58)

09 – William Ryan Fritch – “To Ache for What's Never Been” (37:16)

10 – Kyle Bobby Dunn – “Triple Axel On Cremazie” (39:43)

11 – Alex Kozobolis – “Eye To Eye” (42:34)

12 – The Smiths – “Asleep” (46:54)

13 – Sontag Shogun – “Aveyron” (50:50)

14 – Moondog – “A Furore” (59:20)

A photo by Julien Oncete

Total Time: 01:01:32

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