can we listen

CAN WE LISTEN

can
we
listen—

not to understand
but to enter
what will never
be said

what remains

unsaybale

unknowable.

—

a breath
wants nothing
from the ear.

it passes.
we call it
language.

we call it 

a flowery gift

—

the stone
slowly whisper 

yes

I brought paper.
it wept
without trace.

—

listening:
not to find

not to know,
to remain
with the question.

—

can we
stand
at the edge
of meaning
and not
fall in?

the circular fall

falling and failing 

words

bodies

questions

—

a hand
moved once
in the dark.
you thought
it waved.

singular movement.

it was
a warning.

—

the words
were never
for you.

they cracked
on arrival.

listen—
not for sense
but for
the fracture.

—

can we
tune
our listening
to the absence.

—

the answer
?

in
the silence
that stayed
behind.

—

listen
not to heal,

there are no healing,
listen

to unname.

—

can we listen—
not to translate
but to be
translated,
slowly,
by what we
cannot hold.

—

(leave the page
unreadable.
leave it listenable.)