Silence

Goupil La Femme Fleur

Georges de Feure (French, 1868-1943)

Music pairing: Alexis Ffrench - Dreamland

Silence sounds like

a snail climbing up the leaf of a reed,

the neutral expression of a clock ticking—nonchalant

and infinite;

it sounds like soft fur drifting during Spring, clothes

wrinkling in old wooden drawers;

it's the Finches’ eggs waiting in the nest, as blue as the sky

resting beyond the windows; but

most of all it sounds like the unfolding of a blossom,

how I open my arms to hold you without words,

as gentle serenity hugs, tugs

at this moment of ours.