please be quiet

Maliya Ellis '19

What are you saying?

I can’t hear you over the--

Listen! -- birds’ sweet syrup sighs

Like shower mist

Again!-- dropping low to rest

And best crystallize on

Wind-blown sun-combed

Hair take

Care! Whisper now, the swallows are

Eavesdropping, grief-swapping

And their feathers stuck together

As pop-droplets of time

Scrape their nails down the

Valleys and alleys all

Filed with dark honey

Rich nectar on land, in the air bitter

Regret dark, dawning

On the swallow, falling hollow with a

Sh!

Sigh in a crescent-moon

And you think your tongue

Can paint galaxies.

-2017 Magazine

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