© 2014 by Kevin Gillam

Kevin Gillam is a West Australian poet with poems published in numerous Australian and overseas journals. He has three books of poems published: Other Gravities and Permitted to Fall with Sunline Press, and Songs sul G as part of Two Poets with Fremantle Press in 2011. He works as Director of Music at Christ Church Grammar School in Perth.

 

the colour of healing

it’s a thick silence,
unrehearsed and accidental,
with the house suddenly empty.
rare, in a home like this –
grand piano, two 'cellos, violin, guitar –
three musicians and a dog,
Bach Chaconnes, Chopin Preludes and
high pitched whines joining 'cello duets

has me thinking though,
about the repositories of silence
because it’s been here and waiting,
in the 45 degrees of stairwell, the angle
providing harbour, a balloon of silence
the colour of healing