Poem: “Silence” by Andrea Cohen

Source: Construction Lit Magazine

Favorite Line/ Phrase: “Not an absence”

Response: This is such a short poem, you have no excuse not to click on it right now.  And I think it asks how much work one image can do.  If you look at this poem, one answer is: a lot.  And it makes me wonder, what silence exists in what I see on a daily basis that I mistake for absence.