Collective Voices of the Tight Lipped

by Zena White, Lola Ogbara (Illustrator), Michael Winch (Editor)

How to hear thru the



(In this book I have said nothing and everything at the same time. And somehow your brain has made sense of it all. Translating a language that is not spoken with your mouth. What a remarkable human being you are.)

This book is dedicated to the raging silence that takes place in our heads. That space we go to during an argument with a current or former lover. The painful words that have stripped us naked. This is to “Nothing is wrong” when everything is. The covering up of the silence. Dedicated to the death we did not mourn properly. To the words we let drown in bottles of whiskey, at the bar, in the club. The covering up of the silence. This book is for all the text messages we never pressed “send” for. The paragraphs we deleted in order to replace our response with something less responsive. For far too long silence has been painted with one color when it is an entire rainbow. Silence has a voice...

Genres: Poetry

35 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 8, 2016