TOBIN JAMES MUELLER
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neglect


a cricket outside your window,
once stroking soft and persistent,
as if from every direction, brushing whispers
out of each corner, each shadow,
the tiny minstrel has stopped.

nothing to sleep against,
this new silence
interrupts.



Neglect © 2000 by Tobin James Mueller
"Falling Past Love" published by ArtsForge Press.
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