Bones and Silence by Gerald Fleming

I woke up at 6am this morning, and couldn't get back to sleep. But I was too tired to actually get up and do anything. So... I checked my phone, just out of habit, and saw that there was another email from Poets.org in my inbox. When I clicked on it, this is what I found.  It was a great way to wake up. Started my day reflective, poetic, images personified in the most creative way.. mysterious, elusive, yet ironically clear.
I hope you enjoy it:

"A long time passes—long even in the understanding of stone—and at last Bone feels entitled to speak to Silence. There are prerequisites: proper depth, aridity, desiccation, ph balance, density, and a kind of confidence. No loam: say salt, say dust, say southwest Utah. And when the conversation occurs it is understood on Bone's part what to expect from Silence, so one could say that expectations were low, but such is a pattern of our thinking, and in this case the entire dry dialectic is different, and in fact expectations were high. There is a moon shining, unknown to Bone, intimate with Silence. There are mammals overhead, the noise of whose small feet are perceived or unperceived.

And after all this discursive talk, what at last does Bone say to Silence? What would you have Bone say to Silence? We could try Is there anywhere we can go for a beer? and that might get a little laugh, might qualify as ineffably human, almost religious. But we know better about Bone & Silence—need only look inside us, have the bravery to cease this chatter, this scrape of pencil on paper, to leave the rest of the book blank, get out of the way, let the conversation begin."
- Gerald Fleming

(from the book Night of Pure Breathing)