Mother-Shaped Silence

by The Quiet Voice

Original EveryPoem Studio house-voice poem.

The house is not silent. The refrigerator starts. A bus lowers itself outside. Rain checks every window. Still, there is a silence with your particular outline: where advice arrived unrequested, where laughter interrupted the news, where someone noticed I was tired. Noise fills the rooms. It does not fill your place.
51 words · 11 lines · Free Verse
missing motherabsencehomepersonificationimagerycontrastfree-verse

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