Addition Through Subtraction {Day 6}

Day 6: What have you let go of this year? {the need to understand everyone else's noise} And what has that subtraction added to your life? {a little more peaceful silence}

a bird is my muse and her name is silence.

she makes her nest in inconvenient places

and i have to track her down and remind her

that her home should be with me.

i look her in the eye and i search for truth.

i expect her to look back at me and

we wait to see who will blink first.

i want to be a teller of truths.

hurtful,

funny,

sad and quick.

i follow her flights

and i write what she tells me

on the palms of my hands.

sometimes these truths fade

and sometimes they get mixed into

all the lifelines that crisscross

like star paths in the evening sky.

i mark the curves of the universe

and i hold my palms open

waiting for the all that is real to appear