The Lost Art of Listening (1999)
You seem uninterested. I probably need to focus. Better get to the point. Ask me a question. Can you read my non-verbals?
Conch ShellPopsicles hanging from the auricleDrum prophesies on ossiclesWhose wavy hairs filigree the cochlea Decoding spirals along semicircular canalsUntil hieroglyphics from wavesSpinning give the earth vertigo.Listen to these thousand grains of sandAnd beware your beating heartFor Triton's ancient commandWill turn all auditors to stone.[Disposable Poem September 1, 2006]
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Conch Shell
Popsicles hanging from the auricle
Drum prophesies on ossicles
Whose wavy hairs filigree the cochlea
Decoding spirals along semicircular canals
Until hieroglyphics from waves
Spinning give the earth vertigo.
Listen to these thousand grains of sand
And beware your beating heart
For Triton's ancient command
Will turn all auditors to stone.
[Disposable Poem September 1, 2006]
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