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Jacob Salzer


What Happens

What happens

​when the busy noise of stressful lives
slows to a steady pulse
and becomes still
 
when the sounds of a city
fade away as children sleep
 
and the hollow walls
of those ancient buildings
begin to speak
 
their hidden voices
carried in the hearts and minds
of those who can listen –
 
when the people start to live
in this place
where no words can follow
 
and all language subsides
even for a moment –
 
to watch our words fall into their roots,
into the ancient harbor – (this empty page)
 
that carries them
​

Untitled

​I wake knowing nothing
in a wordless morning
the sound of wind stirring dead leaves
fallen between once familiar streets
now unrecognizable
 
the lines of the leaves
are the veins on the back
of my grandmother’s hands
touching the keys
 
within the sounds of a city
we heard her final song
dissolve in the dark
beneath remnants of a dream
 
a silence we do not notice
​
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Early Morning

We start to wake
the way morning fog fills empty fields
listening to the way rain moves
seeing thick mist hide the horizon
 
listening to you sleep
inside a distant bird call fades
against the sighing breath outside my window
 
your body curled inside a cozy blanket
then the eyes start to open
your eyes start to open
a sudden sigh and a long moaning mmmmm………
arms stretch out, then loud, uncontrollable laughter
 
that soon fades
into the sounds
of your first whispers
​

Haiku

how many
become one
sound of rain
​

A Roaring River

​The barren desert remains unchanged
while the river goes on roaring
 
without knowing if it’s day or night
it goes on without distraction
 
and does not know of past or future
or any measurement of time
 
even when all that is left
are the dried up veins of the earth
 
it carries its sound
into wordless depths of a nameless sea
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