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The Collected Writings of Brian J. Mueller

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No Signal

...no stirring songs

The radio I use
to listen to my soul-songs
isn’t working.

It must be because the silence
isn’t broadcasting this morning.
Thus I won’t be able to tune
the receiver I keep in my heart
to a signal my head can amplify.

All I feel is the cold pushing
inward through these walls
while I listen to the hum
of the space heater pushing back.

It’s one of those mornings,
nondescript and not urgent,
just waiting with ambivalence
for me to shake things up.

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