Energy Deflected      

 

redundant chimney pots

 

………………………………….glitter of photovoltaic

 

a quiet azalea stutters gently

.

red petals fall

 

 

 

 

                        coughing beyond the cluttered aerials

 

…………………………her Hybrid Yaris battery starts up quiet

 

…………………lithium cobalt cadmium graphite

 

 

 

 

pigeon homes in on the lead hopper

 

………………………………clock strikes eleven

 

two planes drone over en route to Heathrow

 

………………………………..breathe carefully

 

 

 

 

a cirrussed sky covers the high sycamore

 

…………….his pollarded fists shake in the east wind

 

……………………leaf buds cry softly

 

……………the bus grinds to a halt

 

……………………………….air gives up.

 

 

 

 

© M. E. Muir

 

 

Silence

 

how do you talk about silence

a long pause                             

 

it’s a space cushioned in silk

a sofa stretching to sky

 

an emptying

morphing to

where

 

ear plugs like pliers twist out noise

noise is the weeds in the garden of sound 

 

 

 

 

when vibrations hit 20k a second you will hear silence

 

an absolute

 

stillness

 

as the gases hold the magic taut

 

and my breath sinks into my grounded soles

 

 

 

 

that evening on the pavement in New Orleans

when Satchmo stopped

 

 

the night grew only a trumpet’s perfect sphere

 

of silence                                 

 

 

© M. E. Muir