Saying Nothing
by Neil Flory
stars that I gazed at longed to kiss to hear and them
not gazing back at me full forests oblivious I asked
so much of wide calm rivers with occasional whitewater episodes
and to me they said nothing and I groped for a reason
I thrashed in a net I said so much coming again to
nothing and nothing again but later in a kind of sleep
something drifted through me smooth wide silent like a dream
and it said no words and about it I can say no words but
only now know that I can perhaps now begin
approaching a meager fragmentary understanding this
is freedom