Silence

Greetings all – thank you for continuing to visit, care, find, read the polysemic stupor this site has been for me. I have felt that I should respond to my extended quiet and lack. As with everyone, much transpires within-without always/all ways… for now I can report that after years of PhD studies into the concept of “nothing”, an ever-expanding and extending fertile void…

Has drawn me toward pondering more intensely what silence might evoke or emit… I should like to say that I have been interactive, con-fused, com-municative, alive/immersed in much (empty-full) space(s). Here’s a card of greeting, thanksgiving, and hello again:

Words of Silence

…dreamt to hush you,

like “now”

or some othered ‘then,’

“here” “you” “?”

It is time now, I said,
for the deepening and quieting of the spirit
among the flux of happenings.

Something had pestered me so much
I thought my heart would break.
I mean, the mechanical part.

I went down in the afternoon
to the sea
which held me, until I grew easy.

About tomorrow, who knows anything.
Except that it will be time, again,
for the deepening and quieting of the spirit.

Swimming, One Day in August – Mary Oliver

“Most of the time, to give oneself to language is to abandon oneself.”

                               –Maurice Blanchot–

“A word’s reach extends a speaker’s grasp, or what’s a language for?”

–Stanley Cavell–

3 thoughts on “Silence

  1. reader55555

    Thank you for the greeting card!
    Silence is powerful, indeed. One has to listen intently to silence.

    Hope you are well.

"A word is a bridge thrown between myself and an other - a territory shared by both" - M. Bakhtin