Hoofs of Pegasus

<p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</SPAN></span></p> <h2>SILENCE</h2> <div class="poetry-container"><div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0"><span class="bigfont">W</span>E are still;</span> <span class="i0">There are no words.</span> <span class="i0">Across the sky</span> <span class="i0">A wedge of birds</span> <span class="i0">Flies northward. Brown and thinned,</span> <span class="i0">A brittle leaf rasps in the wind.</span> <span class="i0">The sun creeps on from tree to tree.</span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">We are still.</span> <span class="i0">Were a word spoken,</span> <span class="i0">Like a troubled pool</span> <span class="i0">Is silence broken.</span> <span class="i0">Better far be dumb.</span> <span class="i0">There are depths no stone could plumb;</span> <span class="i0">Circles widen endlessly.</span></div> </div></div> <hr class="chap" /> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />