Sometimes in afternoon deep quiet,
\nbetween wood-pecks when wind
\ndies, distant music, maybe from
\nrocking trees or changing weather,
\nsomeone with windows down and
\nradio volume at which melody blurs
\nambience. Maybe mind imposes
\nsubstance onto absence, something<\/p>\n
I learned late childhood nights when
\nnightmares left me sweating sheets.
\nThere in the dark, a hum at some far
\nedge that wasn\u2019t the room\u2019s corner,
\nthe song of slipping through cracks,
\nof time trailing off life\u2019s dowsed wick
\nover a spreading wax pool. In these
\nmoments, children gone, wife at work,<\/p>\n
my hands empty, I wonder: if the song
\nlistens to us, what kind of instruments
\nare we? I know the sound of wasps
\nin the walls. How to hear their chewing
\nin the dark. How bits of the heart flake
\noff until all that beats is chamber
\nwithout wall and an empty hall
\napplauds the arrival of instruments.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Sometimes in afternoon deep quiet, between wood-pecks when wind dies, distant music, maybe from rocking trees or changing weather, someone with windows down and radio volume at which melody blurs ambience. Maybe mind imposes substance onto absence, something I learned late childhood nights when nightmares left me sweating sheets. There in the dark, a hum […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2272,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[76],"tags":[25],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-4Np","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18439"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2272"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18440,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18439\/revisions\/18440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}