Foundations / Silence in My Poetry Is Not a “State”

The silence occurring in my poetry
is neither

• quiet,

• nor calm,

• nor settled.

Rather,

it refers to language being placed in a position where meaning cannot be fixed — that very fact itself.

Therefore,

• it can exist even with noisy words,

• it can exist even with many images,

• it can exist even with emotion.

This is ontological, metaphysical silence.