Breaking Silence

Photo "Stream" Brian Federle, 2014

It is not speaking that breaks our silence, 

but the anxiety to be heard. Thomas Merton

In chilled twilight swells

the chorus overwhelming

echoing passion,

half of water, half  

of leafy bank, they fill the

night with lusty will,

persistent, straining

these marshland poets converge, 

anxious to be heard.