phone call

How strange to ask
is there something you need to tell me
seeing that it was I who dialed the phone
and waited for you to pick up?

That question guarantees a no
because the premise on which it is based
supposes that you don’t want me to know

and though my words are not coded
nor written on the back of my hand still
they are more than mere hisses, faint plumes

of steam. As they merge into a subaudible
rumble they grow strong, enough
to force the first cracks.