Craig Morgan Teicher is the author of Brenda Is in the Room and Other Poems, awarded the 2007 Colorado Prize for Poetry. He also wrote Cradle Book (2010), a collection of fiction and fables. Teicher serves as vice president of the National Book Critics Circle and lives in Brooklyn with his wife and son.

Five Poems

by Craig Morgan Teicher

Song Is Silence

The air is never still and never was.
One song was the leaves.

Another was the rustling

                                        of trees in the wind.

Before there was air,
a sublime silence—
there was no one

                          not to hear it.

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