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This is the title poem of
the first book collection,

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"With House Silence."

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It also is a little haibun.

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"Then music got up and
walked out of my life.

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I didn't hear it tiptoeing away.

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My hands and feet numb, I sat
moving paper almost silently

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from a tall pile
onto a shorter one.

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The world seemed
the world was all.

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I didn't hear it resign.

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Only the paychecks stopped.

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Free time.

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Nothing to buy.

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I thought the voice of every
neighbor a smear of carbon

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left on white soap cake.

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Stopped reading
newspapers to keep clean,

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shoved the windows closed.

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If birds sang, I
did not know them.

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It grew so quiet, I thought
the card catalog no longer

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included composers.

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My composition was a doubt.

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I became the color of
walls then curtains.

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One day when coal burned
warmth back into me,

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I reached for the
dry sketches I had

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performed above the calendar
and saw that I was 33 years old.

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The flute cold and blue velvet
inside leather case and shyly

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tampered with house silence.

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Found birds, laughter, aimless
humming, underpinnings,

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arpeggiated softness, perfect
hearing, coolness, rehearsal,

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a return, first new song."