Big Water Reveals Itself
a deer slowly crosses the bay
shoulder-deep through snow
twilight
You never knew this before, but far out at the edge of the ice, that aquamarine horizon, it is what you've always wanted, the perfect piece to fit the emptiness in you.
Is it the sound of gulls?
yes
Is it how ice travels a window?
yes
Is it how sustenance lives equally in the green leaf and the leaf of paper?
yes
Is it how one word meets silence?
yes
It is the map to the edge that leads one to the centre.
It is the bell of your body ringing true on air.
It answers every question of your eyes.
twilight, how small this deer
crossing the frozen bay
towards big water
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