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Grady Chambers

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One of the Many Stories of Sounds

April 24, 2019

It was a quiet afternoon.
Outside, in the corridor, I heard
a door slam
and a woman's crying, which
slowly diminished in the distance.
Then I heard the door
again, though it stayed silent.

- Jurgen Becker, trans. by Okla Elliott

Tags: poems, poetry, jurgen becker
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