Deep Listening

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Deep Listening

Listening is just a way of going still,

so I can hear the slightest sounds

all around me. The house breathing

on its own, the machine we call

the air exchange doing its unsung work

of bringing fresh air into each room,

then gently shutting off. My husband’s

footfalls crossing the floor above,

low voices of a docume…