voices

by Jessica Fanwong

do you not hear, 

the sound of my voice

          booming across the room

or my words

          tearing through the air?

                                                                                      no, I hear only

                                                                                      a faint muttering 

                                                                                                  in the breeze scarcely 

                                                                                      like a bee’s broken buzzing

                                                                                                   incomprehensible and incessant