A Poem For Today - What the Dog Perhaps Hears

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What The Dog Perhaps Hears

If an inaudible whistle

blown between our lips

can send him home to us, 

then silence is perhaps

the sound of spiders breathing

and roots mining the earth; 

it may be asparagus heaving, 

headfirst, into the light

and the long brown sound

of cracked cups, when it happens. 

We would like to ask the dog

if there is a continuous whir

because the child in the house 

keeps growing, if the snake

really stretches full length

without a click and the sun

breaks through clouds without

a decibel of effort, 

whether in autumn, when the trees

dry up their wells, there isn't a shudder

too high for us to hear.

What is it like up there
above the shut-off level
of our simple ears?
For us there was no birth cry,
the newborn bird is suddenly here, 
the egg broken, the nest alive,
and we heard nothing when the world changed.

- Lisel Mueller

[John Jai Conley]

Woof!

Jai

The way you look at things is the most powerful force in shaping your life.

John O’Donohue

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[Isabel Torres-Carrilho]

and we heard nothing when the world changed

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[Rafael Edwards]

beauty full

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[John Jai Conley]

A little dog-matic, but awfully good even so!

Jai

The way you look at things is the most powerful force in shaping your life.

John O’Donohue

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