there was a sudden silence
as the news channel buffered
and the steam shovel
outside my window…
…thirty feet away, stopped
pounding the building
stopped shaking
for a moment
there were no footsteps above me
only the soft noise of fans…and
the air conditioner humming
in the kitchen, blowing cool air
if the birds were speaking
I could not hear them
I could not hear them
in the sudden silence
we—all, just listening
together in the quiet
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