WE KEPT SILENCE

Though our bodies shone and we strained
as if breaking free from ropes,
though we sweated
and swallowed the taste of one another's
groans, though there was at least
everything to say, though the heavens
above us parted and then our house fell down,
though all the lights in the world went out
and as far as we knew we were
the only ones left, even then
- especially then - we kept our silence.
Only the astonishment in our eyes spoke.



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      Elaine Thomas currently lives in the desert southwest with her 16 year old son, Elijah, and a little cat named Ninna. Elaine's poetry and photography have appeared in various print and online publications, such as In Your Face, Paper Salad Poetry, pLopLop, Paramour, Thunder Sandwich, Peshekee River Poetry, The Ho!d, Idiolect, Disquieting Muses, Mindfire Journal, Snakeskin and Stirring.

Photography and Digital Art

'concession'
'Some Room in an Unspecified City'
'fetal position'
poetry/elaine thomas -Kurt Nimmo music accompaniment