C.J. SAGE – Ⅲ

Tell Brings Quiet Out

 

 

 

 

 

Tell brings Quiet out

of hooding, ears threadbare.

Fabled coater, Quiet’s

 

not setting up the act.

Babe in womb singing,

Tell attacks, tantrums

 

scrupulous.   Tell darns

a story from noticed surfaces.

Child of a stolid, quilted faith,

 

dexterity increasingly neglected,

Tell’s years seemed negligible.

In under-breath discussion,

 

Quiet favors business

as unusual, newspapers folded.

Shopkeep’s child of established

 

miles, Quiet sees  merchandise as simple.

Unfolds Tell, Look:  a street

 dressed in  storefronts!

 

Quiet strips out

of a teahouse party,

demurely costumed.

 

Flatly modern-day,

chainstores brand

all the parking spaces.