Silent Response ( was Senecio's High Noon Saturday)

[Mark A Becker]

Thanks for nudging me forward.  I've posted another edit.  Last lines are another stab at what I hope to convey.
Tim

Dang Tim- it's like torture by a thousand cuts (edits), ain't it? How 'bout this? :

Silent Response

This morning
the dog park topic
was Death:
wives lost, decomposed bodies, cancer.
I should have been more
empathetic: I know the loss,
but not the urge
to desecrate that void
with words to strangers.

Illumination at noon: the sun
tossing Death
back to the shadows,
revealing the cardinal
I listen to now.