To listen to the almost silence on the other end,to know your almost silenceis being listened to as well (distant cars,clicks of a keyboard, a child laughing),to know your listening is being listened to(both sides on speakerphone, no one speaking)as you go about your respective days,tiresome appointments, dark highways. The sounds from either side coming throughthat narrow frequency range, the crackleand the hiss of this world,of that world. You don’teven know if it is coming from youor from the other side, the waywhen the leaves rustlewe don’t know if it’s the windor the tree that is speaking. Raoul Fernandes Raoul Fernandes is the poetry editor for Event Magazine and has been published in numerous literary journals and anthologies. His first collection of poems, Transmitter and Receiver, won the Dorothy Livesay Award and the Debut-litzer Award for Poetry in 2016.