The Aurora Review

Summer 2005





Bergman’s The Silence
by Kenneth Pobo

Outside an old hotel, tanks 
and trucks rattle. In their room,

his mother wants him around,
doesn’t want him around. He

hears his dying aunt hoist
her body. His childhood: 

closing doors, secrets, 
sounds he doesn’t understand. 

Silence ticks,
could go off any minute. 

That train he’s catching –
where does it lead?

Untitled #10 by Billy Newman

Untitled #10
by Jason Brindel


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