A Different Quiet

"i have learned that if you must leave
a place that you have lived in and loved
and where all your yesterdays are buried
deep...leave it any way except a slow way
leave it the fastest way you can. never turn
back and never believe that an hour you
remember is a better hour because it is dead.

passed years seem safe ones

while the future lives in a cloud

formidable from a distance

the cloud clears as you enter it"

this house tonight

a different quiet

this night

darker

i sit

 in vacant contemplation

of nothing...