drmstream[writing]

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There is no Silence in the Earth…”

There is no Silence in the Earth — so silent As that endured Which uttered, would dis­cour­age Nature And haunt the World. –Emily Dickinson

I spoke to the trees

I was a deaf boy and the trees spoke to me. I walked through the woods at night. The wind rioted around me, pulling at leaves and branches, try­ing to tear the roots from the ground. The moon­light turned hard and thin. The air was cold with the salt spray from the bay. The trees moaned dully. […]