It is not clear that he can’t speak;

who created languages

but God?

. . . We call him the dumb

God with an effrontery beyond

pardon. Whose silence so eloquent

as his? What word so explosive

as that one Palestinian

word with the endlessness of its fall-out?

R.S. Thomas (1913 – 2000), ‘Nuclear’, Laboratories of the spirit, 1975.