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Day-after-day the widow
"listens out for the ordinary" 
and hears only susurrant voices
until deafness overcomes her

©Kathryn McLoughlin Collins
April 21, 2012

Inspired by Jan Oskar Hansen's "To Be Alone"...

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hush quiets times child
silent babies sleeping sound
harken repeated
~
sounds of whispers soft;
very quietly breathe breaths
whispers of the wind
~
speak very softly
breathe a breath less voiced muttered
quiets silent mourns
~
soft aloft sonant
utters not a loud sound hush
whispers quiet nights




7/17/21

For WHISPERS Poetry Contest
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