Elliot
Canto XX
The shadows are speaking
If you just stop and listen
In tongues that are sharp
In tongues that can glisten
Like lives in the darkness
A photon of light
Is just strong enough
To make it ignite
They wander around us
The whispering winds
My partner confides
“This is how it begins”
The voices grow louder
As we walk about
Then, taken for granted,
The ground suddenly gives out
A Life in Poems 