The Book
The book no one will ever write
is the Book of Silence, of course.
Written with closed lips and wide-open eyes
in blue ink filled with the light of wheat stalks
flowing in the sea wind.
The Book is never finished.
No one can remember how it begins.
Its words go with that distant freighter
fading over the hard, blue line
of the horizon.
Mike Dillon lives in a small town on Puget Sound northwest of Seattle. His most recent book is Nocturne: New and Selected Poems, from Unsolicited Press (2024).
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