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Elizabeth Bastos

Silence

I first heard it in Providence
but this one, it came closer

it sniffed my open hand and
without timidness, allowed me to put it into my ear

a limp firmness,
a toddler’s nap-relaxed arm,
the sound, the mouth-feel of steamed milk it entered me
as I enter a sanctuary smooth

the water in the provided stone bowl on my head.


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