Just listen.
If you’re very quiet …
you can hear things,
stranger than the night itself;
the creaks and crackles
like the black of a wrapper,
or whispers like the breath,
or moans, many times, distantly;
you can hear the noises
of coffee poured, or a rumbling teevee,
languishing laughter,
making out sense and time;
it could be you hear nothing,
you really do hear nothing,
so … what do you SEE?