Silence is clean, a frigate leaving a harbour
with no siren wailing.
Silence is a tureen that needs no scouring
for the last stains of grammar.
Silence is fire,
a threat with no reprieve.
Silence is a panther
that stalks us through jade eyes.
From: http://www.nthposition.com/theorientalistquietus.php
Date: 2003
By: Ranjit Hoskote (1969- )
From Troubles of The World 
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