Russell suggests that this is what writers can do for others and themselves: sing with absence while respecting absence.
Grenade in Mouth: Some Poems of Miyó Vestrini – Miyó Vestrini
Poems are too little, too. That’s why we need grenades, it would seem.
There is a direct link between listening and life, perceivable in its absence. What we cannot say and what we cannot hear matter.