It's Still Life

Tipping Dominos

he is a book better bolted shut. He is fire escaped.

and I know a woman who howls
and cries, but its music is
lost on deaf senses.

he is an ox in a pine forest, and he’ll break earth.

and I know a man who shakes
and prays, but he also dances
in the falling snow.

and we ask what’s required to undo what we’ve done.

written for Miz Quickly’s Day 30: A few words (book bolt music senses pine break required earth shake)