It’s can be so easy to hear without listening.
You simply refrain from bestowing the attention of your auditory faculties.
How indeed do people watch without seeing?
I can tell you how, it is exactly the same, by consistently unfocusing.
I may have an excuse, two lazy eyes.
A refrain heard constantly, “look at me, look where I am pointing.”
Stumbling through life, eyes wide open, viewing not a single thing.
Finding with my fingers. Searching through puzzles. Shimmying through rings.
Coming out with cockeyed answers, never corrected or made to look again.
Finally, the paradigm shift forced me to see past the fun-house mirror I had been viewing the world in.
With looking glass split, and tower ashed, hindsight an illusory comfort.
Full speed ahead, glittering orbs of glass.
Take it all in.
Guide our course on the way to the stars, reflected now, on your shining upturned hungry surfaces.
K.B. Silver
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K.B. Silver
K.B. Silver has poems published in magazine Wishbone Words, and lit journals: Sheepshead Review, New Note Poetry, Twisted Vine, Avant Appa[achia, Plants and Poetry, recordings in Stanza Cannon, and pieces in Wingless Dreamer anthologies.
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