Heard my blood say to my ear, "just me,"
and my tinnitus, "I never tire."
Dreamt that Acker Bilk played a tune called
"Leo Fibonacci on the shore."
There were many crushed whorls to tread on,
a few perfect to keep and measure.
Does hubris make whelks build such armour
their lives in slime can never outlive?
We give the whelks a pride they can´t feel
and a cruelty that is all ours.
What if a godless dark once huddled
in, died from, the shell of York Minster?
There has been much interpretation
of the not-quite-silence that drowns out
footfalls and voices between such walls.
It´s like the sea we don´t hear in a conch.