It's Still Life

“…to find the smallest fragment and silence all around it until its voice fills your ears…” — M.

I.
The Smallest Fragment

First, find the shard,
a cracked bell,
a half-buried word.

Then build silence around it.

Wait.
Do not reach.
Let it remember itself.

Now listen.
It will not shout.

It will hum
not with what was lost,
with what remains true.

This is the work:
to be the keeper of the quiet,
so that what is small
may be heard.

II. (a tanka)
A fragment.
I quiet the world around
until it can answer.
In the hush, it comes forward,
larger than it ever was.

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