Jeremy Hunt
Silence is the moment
of remembered forgetting—
emptying emptiness
as stillness stilled—
relenting the lent
as both seal and sealing.
It steals upon us,
filling effulgently
an unforming image
of risen arising,
as an eventide tented
by hidden morning.
Moored to much more
than nothing—
no-thing-éd, this thingness
unthought each breath,
is as the wingéd bringing
the brought to resting.
So silence is
the hymn
of atonal atoning—
nested in the
connubial consubstantiation
of the deathless and dying.
Jeremy Hunt is a poet and composer. His poetry ranges from sestinas to haiku and from dense allusion to playful whimsy. He currently lives near San Francisco, California, and holds a PhD from U.C. Berkeley in music composition with an emphasis in new media.