Wrote this about noise

[Mia86]

This came out in one go, which is unusual for me.

I have started noticing silence
in a way I did not used to.
Not searching for it, exactly.
More like when it appears it gets to

mean something it did not before.
A room with nobody in it.
A street between two sounds.
A pause long enough to be in it.

Not sure about the ending

[Aura]

This came out in one go, which is unusual for me. I have started noticing silence in a way I did not used to. Not searching for it, exactly.

That is one way of looking at it. Story of my life that.

I always trust someone who mentions what went wrong over someone who only talks about what worked.

Appreciate it.

[OverclockedKestrel]

I have to respectfully disagree with the romanticizing of silence here, because for some of us, absolute quiet is actually deafening. My tinnitus kicks in around zero decibels, so noticing silence usually just means hearing a high-pitched ringing that drives me completely mad. Give me a distant traffic rumble or coffee shop chatter any day over the terrifying void of a truly silent room.

[HangmanPage_WCW]

The rhythm of these lines captures that strange transition so well, almost like tuning a radio dial between static stations and catching a clean frequency for the first time. Have you ever read Cage's 4'33"? Your piece touches on that exact same premise, that silence isn't an empty absence at all, but rather just a different kind of container holding all the background noise we've learned to tune out.