shark's teeth

.

Everything contains some

silence.  Noise gets

its zest from the

small shark's-tooth-

shaped fragments

of rest angled

in it. An hour

of city holds maybe

a minute of these

remnants of a time

when silence reigned,

compact and dangerous

as a shark.  Sometimes

a bit of a tail

or fin can still

be sensed in parks.

~ Kay Ryan

from The Best of It