1. SONG
Man is never all-voice
His melody
Is never complete
We listen
Ears desiring a soprano’s aria
Senses enthralled
Like petals spreading out
To cushion the music
This song
That our bodies
Cannot dance to
keeps a secret rhythm
Enough for the cadence of notes
To set us falling slowly
From the heights
Of silence
2. TREE
A tree's destiny is
To live for death --
Limbs cut, body sawed,
Pieces of lumber put together
Not as another tree
But as walls feigning home.
No one hears it cry,
We only see it fall
Without slipping
For it has been careful
With its steps away and back.
It falls like any body cut into two --
A lonely stump beside
A felled trunk eager to roll away
To become a house
And live in a home of wood.
3. DEAF AND MUTE CHILD PLAYING THE PIANO
Your fingers
Graceful as butterflies
Flit from flower to flower
Sometimes they dance
Tiptoed as in ballet
To waltz created in air
The piano keys
Seem like mouth
Twitching into sound
Do you understand
The surprise and beauty
That your hands weave -
A basket of music
That plays within
Fragrant melodies
That echo
Deep and lasting
