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Quiet

by Intrinsic Heart
August 1, 2024
in Poetry & More, Jack Gilbert, Wendell Berry

Ask the World to Reveal Its Quietude

Ask the world to reveal its quietude—
not the silence of machines when they are still,
but the true quiet by which birdsongs,
trees, bellows, snails, clouds, storms
become what they are, and are nothing else.

– Wendell Berry –
From Sabbaths 2001

~~~~~~~~~~~

Waking at Night

The blue river
is grey at morning
and evening. There
is twilight
at dawn and
dusk. I lie
in the dark
wondering if
this quiet in
me now
is a
beginning
or an
end.

– Jack Gilbert –

~~~~~~~~~~~

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