A new selection from Having Listened by Gary Whited, winner of the 2013 Homebound Publications Poetry Prize. Look for it on Amazon and B&N as well as in Kindle, Nook, and Kobo. Be sure to ask your local indie bookstore if they stock the book and show your support for local business! Visit our Store»
Someplace
Just as little is seen in pure light
as in pure darkness.
—Hegel
Wind chimes next door
Listen, they sound free
Someplace a horse is running right now
Someplace a polar bear is resting on ice
Wind moves over the curve of earth like a glove
Listen, grass says, it is here
Any place opposites move toward the next imperfection
Wind, for example
Listen, you can hear leaves tremble
Someplace a grasshopper nibbles on the tender wheat
Stops to spit, chews, leaps to the next stalk
A child sees this, mimics it with his whole body
Listen, someplace we sing the last song
The place they pull us free from breathing this air