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  • Taciturnity  
  • Misinterpretation
  • Fence Me No More
  • Cochlear Implant
  • Chessman Chase at the Square
  • To Deaf
  • The Deaf-Mute Boy Who Could’ve
  • Shofar
  • Pavlovian Pygmalion
  • Learning Up Front
  • It’s Esmeralda, Felix
  • In Der Nacht (In the Night)
  • If I Am At All
  • Golden God
  • Deaf Poet or What?
  • Deaf Man Howls
  • About the Tale of an Old Bay Fisherman
Curtis Robbins
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Misinterpretation

Wordsmithing
juggling for meaning
cascading for
coherent cogitation.

My soundless mind!
I’m out in the glare—
the darkness
of a blank stare.

Cascading a dangling
ambiguous word
this tinnitic ring
rings louder.

A funerary knell?
A mystic tune?
A cryptic note
in discord?
An anguish tear?

Should I write
what it might be?
Should it be
an inappropriate
intent?

Should it be what I think
it should be
or leave it
for the reader to mutter?

By Curt Robbins

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