July 27, 2020

Listening into the Silence by Martin Willitts Jr.

In the quiet, morning is unburdened
the sky’s hibiscus color.
Abundance cascades of birdsong —
just a heartbeat away.

Too soon, the moment is over.
Light understands
the unexpected, the lament,
the surrender, the cold unsettling
surprising force of wonder and loss.

I listen into the silence
for instructions, hoping
a voice will answer,
not from within,
but from otherworldliness.





Martin Willitts Jr has 25 chapbooks including the Turtle Island Quarterly Editor’s Choice Award, “The Wire Fence Holding Back the World” (Flowstone Press, 2017), plus 20 full-length collections including the Blue Light Award 2019, “The Temporary World”. His recent book is "Unfolding Towards Love" (Wipf and Stock, 2020). 

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