Disturbance

The absence of noise is not
silence, it is the loss
of stillness.

The absence of stillness
is movement, a disturbance of
time, space.

A pebble dropped
into a calm pond.
A disturbance, painting a picture
layers and layers of disturbance.

As in a painting, layers
and layers of disturbance.
Painstakingly blended by the artist.

Deep crimson deeply
disturbed by applications
of black.

Inky blue disturbed by
an infusion
of white.

Daylight disturbs the
darkness--
sleep.

Just as sleep
night after night, creeps
into consciousness.

Patina, the disturbance
of copper's orange hue, the
urns mossy hair.

In the woods, each
disturbance celebrates
tranquility.

Water dances over
rock, smoothing each
stone, roughening the water.

Death disturbs life
with its utter
silence.