she listened
(through the other voices)
for
something
familiar
(hers)
a tangle of verbs
(in the native tongue)
an
articulate
pitch
a guttural growl
something
prowling
rattling
(consonance)
angry dissonance
alliteration
(vestibuled) in voweled provocations
sinking
devolving
dissolving
into/around
boarded
sounds
(groups) of things not said
condensed
in virgin heads
absence
absinthe
dread
drawn out
faded
not allowed to be
(arranged)
restive
jaded
strange
plodding through the muffled existence of
yesterdays rain
content
to
be
forgiven
for just being plain