Each day we go about our business walking past each other catching other’s eyes or not to speak speaking. All us is noise. noise and bramble thorn din one of ancestors on tongues. Someone stitching up a hem darning hole in uniform patching tire repairing the things need repair. trying make music somewhere with pair wooden spoons an oil drum cello boom box harmonica voice. A woman her son wait for bus. farmer considers changing sky. teacher says Take out your pencils. Begin. We encounter other words words spiny smooth whispered declaimed consider reconsider. cross dirt roads highways that mark will some then others who said I see what’s side. know there’s something better down road. find place where are safe. walk into which cannot yet see. Say it plain: many have died this day. Sing names dead brought here laid train tracks raised bridges picked cotton lettuce built brick by glittering edifices they would keep clean work inside of. Praise song struggle praise every hand-lettered sign figuring-it-out at kitchen tables. Some live love thy neighbor as thyself others first do no harm take more than you need. What if mightiest word love? Love beyond marital filial national casts widening pool light pre-empt grievance. In today’s sharp sparkle winter air any thing can be made sentence begun. On brink brim cusp