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21 Knots
There's a humbling sound
at 21 knots,
this voice
powerful,
and frightening.
I can hear,
but can't see anyone.
Human words are not sufficient
to even describe it.
I lost the ability to discern it
at Babel's folly,
when I learned the vice of pride.
But in this dark place,
this no place,
and this every place
it is thunderous and piercing
if I just turn my ear into it
12 stories up,
winnowing into sinew,
between joint and marrow
in this deep place.