“In a silent room, a hiss.
The sss slithers
through trampled fields
of felled hair cells,
snakes through hands
cupped over ears,
surfs undulant churns
of Marpac Dohms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tympanic sibilance transmutes rest
into tolerance,
mattresses into sonic pinboards,
beds of hissing nails,
electric impulses leaking,
sisses within floorboards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Missed consonants obscure gist,
sense rendered senseless\u2014
an empty yes in response,
please rephrase, say twice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Brushes on snare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ambient masks smother, shroud
significance,
isolate listener within whispers,
within susurrus shush,
woosh sense into absence:
this hiss, a s\u00e9ance of noise,
in a silent room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“In a silent room, a hiss.The sss slithersthrough trampled fieldsof felled hair cells,snakes through handscupped over ears,surfs undulant churnsof Marpac Dohms. Tympanic sibilance transmutes restinto tolerance,mattresses into sonic pinboards,beds of hissing nails,electric impulses leaking,sisses within floorboards. Missed consonants obscure gist,sense rendered senseless\u2014an empty yes in response,please rephrase, say twice. Brushes on snare. Ambient masks smother, … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa867U-111","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3908,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3907\/revisions\/3908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Stephen May is a writer based in Connecticut. His work has appeared in Belt Magazine, Rust + Moth, A Portrait of New England, and elsewhere.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"