outside / inside

A sound formed as we
stood outside of it and

we heard everything    we feel

everything—

silence threaded
through the centre
of a note    droning

this day was a dive through membranes

or through light—

the very boundary
that bounds
around— a girl soft as trapped light crying
there’s more inside me than nouns

a border poured from sound
her fingers lit the very edge of it
how did we
find our—

selves inside
her? inside this

particular
instant?

inside the word    stretched
across the edge of

the edge of—


TOMAS WEBER