My essay, entitled “Catching Silence,” was recently featured by The Clayjar Review in their “Silence” edition. Here’s a little preview….
My grandmother said that the deepest silence echoed when she was the last one sitting on the front porch on Sunday afternoon.
It used to be that her father and mother, sisters and brother, grandparents, aunts, uncles, friends, and neighbors gathered there, but now, they’ve all gone. She alone is left, wondering where and when she will follow them, seeing only shadowy memories of what once was, never hearing their voices call to her anymore.
When she speaks out of that silence, I listen and catch her words like butterflies in a net. I string them together to weave into music that we can both enjoy like an old record on a gramophone.
If silence is pregnant, then something better must be coming….
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Sarah Dixon Young 