onomatopoeia

onomatopoeia

some words -- call out:
round, loud
or screeching traction
or precise, pertinent
or subtle, evanescent
or in the end
awe

calls coming to shake and point
in the direction
like swallowing a throw

sounds only hiss
shushing
isn't silence

--- [updated July 9, 2019 with G.'s help]