a refrain is a repeat, the chorus.
to refrain to withhold, to abstain.
noun, verb. again or not at all. refrain ringing, the sound only because of the silence.
what i repeat to myself, to you, and what i choose not to do, some kind of texture of a life.
refrain: “The notion is of something that causes a song to "break off" then resume.”
refrain, connected to the word refraction, the light by now has changed direction.
this push pull, in my own refrains and their changing and how what i refrain from changes, could i stop lying. June Jordan: “And my wanting to say/wanting to show and tell bells/ /okay because I’m shy / but I / will not lie / to you”
this poem, landing right there on the floor of my heart:
