Listening To The Snow

Listening To The Snow

Go to sleep, go to sleep.

Let us cover up all the harsh edges
of the world.

Let us settle over the dead
and unburied,

Let our deep drifts pile
against your gravestones

and erase the dates, and then
the names.

When you think of one, you think
of all the dead -

They are no more separate
than we are.

Listen to what we show you:
this white silence.

Go to sleep, go to sleep.

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