water a mirror

i
or
you
lost
words
unfurled
rope let go
boat wind-cast
upon wide ocean
into vastness so full

of emptiness there
is no map of the
open sea waters
go on forever
like sky goes
on forever
all men go
to graves
or part
words
lost
you
or
i

passed over

what I didn't say bled like a river for days long after flies long after the blood had dried and the flies dead long after the odor the stink required a shirt held over your nose and mouth what I didn't say lingered there in the silence the solemn silence deafening the silence I had to break with the things I had to say that coming out of my body tore flesh shattered bones like a high pitch shatters glass saying what I didn't say to drive the crows away crows that tear at flesh and go for the eyes there were no eyes there was no flesh there were no words what I didn't say no longer was what I did say no longer was I no longer was there was only what was itself existing because it always had remembering itself what it was it threw me away because I didn't matter it didn't matter if I didn't say if not through me it would find another.

Sound

You wake up near evening
a single stone in your hand

misshapen
imperfect
just the right thing

not random nor meaningless
cool to the touch

made of a wisdom
that you can not grasp

like an echo of nothing
of nothing
of nothing-