The Contagion of Silence

Poems and Poetics
by

Frost Branon

For my son Henry:
a gift, whose involuntary silence has filled my soul's crucible
with the hope of a new scansion, the reappearance of lost things

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

"Kaleidoscope" first appeared in Seasons to Come, National Library of Poetry; "Clinging to Clouds" first appeared in Sanskrit, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte; "Azaleas That Bloom in Winter" first appeared in Carolina Style Magazine. "Stroke" first appeared in the Savannah Literary Journal in short, short story form.

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