NORTHEAST MOUNTAIN PEOPLE
  • On Hiking (Home)
    • Southern New England Highest Summits
    • White Mountain Parsnip
  • About
  • Links
A Cargo of Green Hearts
~POEMS~

social media, 2

10/22/2017

 
​then one day
all the listening stopped.
you couldn’t hear the last
door shut, the ears
falling off made no sound
and dropped 
like shriveled apricots.
it was easy to destroy
the birds then, to say
they never mattered
to crush the chickadee
in hand. the stars still
meant something but
when the wave came
we never knew what 
hit us. the smashing of
guitars was chordless
without a sad, low note
the guns took us
as if in our sleep, the trees
fell all around but, as we so 
often joked, they never
really fell because no
one ever heard them, yet
we wandered empty 
among the stumps
and ran our fingers
through our hair as if trying
to recall the texture of 
leaves and grass. 
all these things happened
and worse but it started
small, innocuously like
someone clicking the 
receiver on an obsolete phone
such a tiny, final sound
it began like a whirlpool
at first wide we imagined
we could hear the entire 
world breathe then just
a city like us, then a street
like us, then a house filled
with us, how the faces
all looked the same
all said the same prayers
the more righteous 
the more alike 
then a room jammed
full of I with a capital I
oh the narrowing,
the winnowing until the only
things we believed worth
listening to were our own
thoughts and they 
took us down.
​

Comments are closed.

    Poetry Log

    Poems  are posted here when I'm ready to share them. I often don't title my poems. The date you see above the poem may be the date it was posted here and not necessarily the date it was created.  To see more, click on the Archives below. 

    Archives

    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    January 2019
    November 2018
    October 2018
    August 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013



    Categories

    All
    Notifications
    Poems


    RSS Feed


    Picture

    Picture
    Unless otherwise noted, all content ©Paul-William Gagnon, Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-NoDerivs license.
Proudly powered by Weebly
  • On Hiking (Home)
    • Southern New England Highest Summits
    • White Mountain Parsnip
  • About
  • Links