A Pearl Between Two Gazes

Two heads gaze at each other across a space where a wide pearl, a quiet meeting point, is suspended between their hands. One creature listens to the world with a floral ear with a heavy core, while another ear stretches like a tail across its head, like a thought without end. From its chin grow palms – gestures that have not yet become words. Opposite, the other head wears a beard of wings, folded tip to tip, as if trying to maintain a fragile balance of air. The pearl between them is the silence that both gazes simultaneously preserve and give birth to.