This is Just to Say

"I will listen for
for you

I will hear
all the sounds
in the world

all the
delicious
ineffable
effable
sounds

All the
thrumming
and
humming
and
tintinnabulating
sounds

I will hear
all the sounds
in the
world

And I will write them down
so you
can
hear
them
too."

(by Karen Hesse, from her book "Hate that Cat" inspired by William Carlos Williams)

(and just for a little backround info, it's a little boy writing about his deaf mother.)