a beginning

a beginning

a beginning

I stand before my background like a tree
of all my many mouths I am but one
and that which soonest chooses to be dumb
I am the rest between two notes which, struck together, sound discordantly
but in the dark pause, trembling,
the notes meet, harmonious, and

I stand before my background like a tree
of all my many mouths I am but one
and that which soonest chooses to be dumb
I am the rest between two notes which, struck together, sound discordantly
but in the dark pause, trembling,
the notes meet, harmonious, and

I stand before my background like a tree
of all my many mouths I am but one
and that which soonest chooses to be dumb
I am the rest between two notes which, struck together, sound discordantly
but in the dark pause, trembling,
the notes meet, harmonious, and