White Noise

I see

red

when I stop thinking

Stop waking teeming bursting

Red is livid, rupturing, filling me

up

with a scalding

peal that doesn’t

stop.

 

I taste

green

when I stop caring

Stop giving having wanting

Green is ugly, hankering, filling me

up

with a roiling

growl that doesn’t

stop.

 

I feel

blue

when I stop knowing

Stop falling sinking drowning

Blue is still, unnerving, filling me

up

with a lulling

hum that doesn’t

stop.

 

I hear

white

when I stop listening

Stop seeing tasting feeling

White is kind, blanketing, filling me

up

with a piercing

shrill that doesn’t

stop.

We acknowledge the Ngunnawal and Ngambri people, who are the Traditional Custodians of the land on which Woroni, Woroni Radio and Woroni TV are created, edited, published, printed and distributed. We pay our respects to Elders past and present. We acknowledge that the name Woroni was taken from the Wadi Wadi Nation without permission, and we are striving to do better for future reconciliation.