Excerpt:

…When silence is
Abdication of word tongue and lip
Ashes of once in what was
…Silence
Song word speech
Might I…like Philomena…sing
continue
over
into
…pure utterance

"Philip’s most renowned poetry book, She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks, was awarded the Casa de las Américas Prize for Literature while still in manuscript form." Wikipedia

Source: http://www.nourbese.com/poetry/she-tries-her-tongue/