silence ~ not a breath

 silence ~ not a breath

silence

not a breath

but the mumble of a bumble bee

to stir the lobelia that stirs me

the sun upon my shoulder

is hot this heady morn

the cat is asleep on the red cushion

she has been glorious since dawn

i’m learning to relax

it has been a long time you see 

the sun is relaxing the cat

and she is teaching me

then a wood pigeon clatters through 

disturbing us both

the sun goes slowly

behind an errant cloud

again silence

talks to me in poetry 

in words i do not understand