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Another poem about
poetry there was a time

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when every journal I opened
used the magic word, silence,

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the poets in the journal.

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And at the time I was living
above a very noisy freeway

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and felt qualified to
write this poem called

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"Some Meanings of Silence."

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"It has the last
word so many times.

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One takes his journey or
performs his experiment

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and arrives at silence.

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Apparently, a happy ending.

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Silence at its most
literal I experienced once

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in a northern forest.

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I marveled at it and felt
misanthropic when bark fell,

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or some buzzy flyer
aimed by how exact--

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other silences just
clutter the picture,

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they mean empty not
clear, they imply flat not

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tranquil, they say, step easily
out this door I'll carry on.

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In the silence, I know, I
hear how noisy my head is

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and I shift toward conduct most
efficient at the still centers.

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Snow knows this.

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Molds and mosses and
mushrooms work this way.

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Silence shapes out from inside.

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It is not a way out,
not for the fatigued.

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Peace may be the world's widest
awake creation to be awake in.

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The automobiles never cease
on the highway below me."

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