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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