The
Fluency of Unmuffled Words
Like chrysalism,
that amniotic
tranquility felt indoors
during the eerie
tension of a t-storm,
ugly words become
muffled
words,
like upstairs
arguments,
or those in a
next-door hotel room or apartment
because even white
noise is never silent.
There are not
enough words for
what we really
need to communicate to each other,
amid the great
profusion of claps
that could
potentially break fragile thoughts.
Know that as we
repaint the air
with the true
colors of tenderness,
we will recover
the smooth form of our nerves
after the release
of anxiety,
will rebuild the
once waning strength of our angst.
And the fluency of
our unmuffled words
will help us both
love the beauty
and/of the dark.
Linda Imbler
Linda Imbler is an internationally published poet, an avid
reader, classical guitar player, and a practitioner of both Yoga and Tai
Chi. In, addition, she helps her husband, a Luthier, build acoustic
guitars. She lives in Wichita, Kansas, U.S.A. where she enjoys her
200-gallon saltwater reef tank wherein resides her 24 year old yellow
tang. Linda’s poetry collections include eight published paperbacks: Big
Questions, Little Sleep First Edition, Big Questions, Little Sleep
Second Edition; Lost and Found; Red Is The Sunrise; Bus Lights;
Travel Sight; Spica’s Frequency; Doubt and Truth; and A Mad
Dance. Soma Publishing has published her four e-book collections, The
Sea’s Secret Song; Pairings, a hybrid of short fiction and poetry; That
Fifth Element; and Per Quindecim. Examples of Linda’s poetry and a
listing of publications can be found at lindaspoetryblog.blogspot.com.
Linda has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and six Best Of The Nets.
