Postcard

After reading the first few poems in "What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison", I was drawn to two poems, "Language" and "Concordance". In both of these poems the ways in which we used or didn't used words seemed to be important. What struck me the most about the Language poem was that the first line was about silence. I think that the word silnece hold a lot of weight. We oftentimes talk about silence in social just as taking away or denying someones voice or experience. In our talks about mindfulness, silence is a way to create stillness and reflection. In this poem however, silence becomes apart of speech, apart of the language that we use. I think that as we move through this course, taking up an appreciation for the natural silence in the world will help us think more about how language (verbal and noverbal) influences learning and how an acknoweledgement of natural silence can be empowering to people who prefer not to speak.