Exquisite Silence

I recall the first time
we were enfolded
by the fabled acoustics
of this extraordinary place
called Ordway.
Panels of glass
pressed out against
the box of night air.

No visual distractions here,
icy interior, cathedral
of beige and frost.

Lights lowered. There
was applause. Then
the mime, most famous
in all the world, came
out from the velvety blackness
into the lemon-hot spotlight
and took us all in,

his expressive eyes,
piloting the changeable
moon
of his white face.

We could have heard
a pin
d
r
o
p
!

I
think we
did.

Leslie Schultz

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