not to speak

Ivory Black [not to speak]

    Not to speak
To see and to translate into moans     It's not pain
   To moan from birth
   Only the eye and a conquering of the tongue
   (that you wanted to say that for the "slit"?)

   To return toward hearing (to touch oneself) via the
   heart is heard slowly
   Is guarded like a black poem as if it were an eye
                                  who might rain


— Myriam Moscona