<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">The Silence Of The World<div><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="t1" width="" style="width: auto; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><tbody></tbody></table><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="t1" width="" style="width: auto; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><tbody></tbody></table><p class="p2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "> </div><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="t1" width="" style="width: auto; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><tbody><tr><td valign="top" class="td1"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">I can imagine the silence when the world<br>will have stilled itself—no more poems tossed<br>off the tongue, no more screams<br>of raven lugging entrails of porcupine,<br>no more tales of the Navajo, or Louisiana black man,<br> or old-time Vermonter,<br>no more breathing in the ear of last lover,<br>no more angelic beings left to be kissed<br>into the claustrophobia of flesh,<br>no more temples giving light<br>from open doors into bitter winter nights, no more<br>curious weasel who leaves<br>her black ring frozen in the air,<br>no more tooth that gnaws through gum and bones into<br> the cathedral of the mouth.<br>No more splat when singer spits<br>mouthwash into the washbasin after the concert,<br>no more “Quit yer bawlin!”<br>from punk principal to slob schoolboy<br>when sore mother hauls<br>small boy into classroom by sore ear.<br>No more young woman in large hat in profile<br>in afternoon light saying, “So what, darling?<br>I don’t hate you. I love you. So what?”<br>No more flutesman trudging through snow<br>on 125th Street on the last Sunday morning of his jeopardy.<br>No more husband saying, “Snack bar’s the other way.”<br>No more wife replying, “You aren’t going to eat again, are you?”<br>No more husband replying, “I don’t want to eat,<br>I was just telling you where the snack bar is.”<br>No more wife replying, “For Chrissake! I know where it is.”<br>No more caesura or else everything one endless caesura,<br>no more feminine rhyme such as “lattice” and “thereat is,”<br>no more parallelismus membrorum panting in one ear,<br>no more Neruda’s slowly deepening voice saying,<br>“Federico, te acuerdas, debajo de la tierra . . .”<br>From across the valley the thud of an axe<br>arrives later than its strike<br>and the call of goodbye slowly separates itself<br>little by little from the vocal chords of everything.</div></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="t1" width="" style="width: auto; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><tbody></tbody></table><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="t1" width="" style="width: auto; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><tbody></tbody></table><p class="p2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "> </div></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Galway Kinnell</div><div><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="t1" width="" style="width: auto; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><tbody></tbody></table><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="t1" width="" style="width: auto; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; 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