QUESTIONS

Prepare yourself for the message.
You are prepared?
                          Silence.
Silence is the message.
The message is c. Wait.
Are you sure? An echo?
An echo of an echo?
                          Sound.
Was it always there
                     with us failing
to hear it?
                What was the shell doing
on the shore? An ear endlessly
                     drinking?
            What? Sound? Silence?
Which came first?
                          Listen.
Ifll tell you a story
as it was told me by the teller
                     of stories.
Where did he hear it?
By listening? To silence? To sound?
            To an echo? To an echo
                     of an echo?
                          Wait.








"Questions,"
from Later Poems 1972-1982


backgroud image: st hywyn's church(aberdaron)