Tag: latency

wait

 

a train passes

quietly whistles

whispers past

 

wait

in silence latent

 

another train passes

faster

 

wait

in mounting silence

with its beauty

latent

 

silent

gone

 

wait

in stillness

with its silent beauty potent

fragrant stillness

idly still

wait

 

and another train passes

and silence once broken

creaks achingly

shrieks

the ugly shriek of morning cockatoos

strewing seeds from the gum-tops

fretfully

shrieking

swooping wide white wings low over streets

with anxious shrieking

and shaking

as another train passes

rumbles

and another train

grumbles

sweeping silver streak

shrieking

creaking on the tracks

rumbles underground

the city groans

achingly

shrieks

the city groans

anxiously

speaks

in silent ugly words

scattered like seed by the morning cockatoos