Time descends

and ascends

Me

to you

Rivers run

one course

and yet

clouds bring

renewal

.

God comes

from nowhere

Silently

serene

Blackness

light fills

.

Today

a birth

Pain

and joy

Love appearing

Dawn

before

the dawn

.

Yellow light falling and remaining

Today and yesterday

What is

Eternity incarnate

Light in bloom

Certainty

In midst of uncertainty

Horizon to horizon

One moment

What was and will be

Sun behind

Black birds spiralling

Circles travelling

Into light

Acres of grain

What is becomes what was

A life

Perfect imperfection

A hidden centre

Near

Entering and leaving rain

A rainbow circled by cloud

.

stars

shine

at night

.

A pale

Blue sky

Cooled by rain

Distinct and

Enlightened

.

Far

Grey

Horizon

Interior and

Jeweled

.

Keen

Layered

Moments

Newly

Observed

.

Perfect

Quiescent

Remote

Shifts in

Time

.

Ascending

Bird

Circling into

Depths of sky

.

Even

Far

Greater

Heights

i

Joyfully

Knew

.

Answer me

.

Before it

Comes to be the

Day is

Encountered by

Faith

Greeted by birds

.

How

.

In the still of the day they

journey beyond

Knowledge

Leaving the earth for

Mysterious

Nothingness

.

Of what world are they

.

Pelicans in

Quiet

Repose by the

Shore

Tilting their beaks towards water

.

At a lake in the desert

Brought there by youthful adventure

Coming in spring in bright cloudless

Days we

Entered a

Foreign world

.

Growing up in the city where to

Have silence was rare the

Intense stillness

Jolted us

.

Keeping a promise to rise early we

Left our campsite and

Made our way to a

Narrow peninsula of sand in the

Open water

Present all around us were birds whose songs

Quenched the silence leaving a

Residue of

Serenity that remains to

This day

.

At dawn’s edge

Before the light is

Created I lie on a

Down pillow of sand my

Eyes unseeing as darkness

Fills with

Growing shoots of sound

Holding the

Incoming

Just beyond

Knowing

.