American Buddhist Poetry Radio: The Silence in America

Bonus track is above — “When the Silence Breaks.”You can start there first if you want.It carries the ache under this whole piece, but also the turn.This episode is about negative silence.Not sacred silence.Not wise pause.Not stillness.The other kind.The kind that lives in the jaw, in the short answer, in the drive home, in the phone glow, in the house where nobody says the real thing. The kind that spreads through a life, a family, a country.This one is about burnout, fear, numbness, moral fatigue, and what happens when people carry too much for too long and start calling shutdown peace.But it’s also about the break.The return.The moment truth comes back through the throat.Start with the bonus track above, or go straight into the episode.Either way, welcome. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit monkmodesociety.substack.com/subscribe