2012.01.20 —I thought I held the phone (A River of Stones#1-20)

I thought I held the phone
but it was the speakerphone noise
that held me rapt with a distant hope.

2011.02.14 — Tinnitus abounds (NaSmaStoMo#2-14)

Tinnitus abounds
in the air inside my ear
to bind thought to noise.