an overwhelming silence
as leaves and slender tree limbs bob
without accompaniment
a hawk wheels in the blue gulf of a cloudless sky
turning on points over
a sharp brown ridge
a telephone wire stropped
between its metallic box mounted on a timber pole
to a yellow adobe house
twists tan-gray to black quivering with resonate
motion
but no sound
heat
scribbles off a shingled roof
pours like
hot salt off corrugated stingy metal
a stained-white
net hanging from a basketball hoop slips stiffly
apricots blush
radiant purple charges of
smoketree nettles nod
blades of grass push their
neighbors from behind and they in turn push theirs
the deep green shiny orange
leaves stare and tendrils of lavender beside them moan
everythings silent
deaf
though not blind
Sunnyday
afternoon, 21 4. 13
