Jessica Isaacs

silence

He talks constantly,
rambling on aimlessly
just to fill the silence,
 
because the silence
says more
than he’s ready

to hear.

 

Jessica Isaacs, the founder and co-editor of  Dragon Poet Review, an online literary journal (http://dragonpoetreview.com), received the 2015 Oklahoma Book Award for Poetry for her first full-length book of poems, Deep August (Village Books Press, 2014).