February 17, 2015Canticle
Somehow words
are not enough.
At least
not ones I see.
There’s a hollow
thud against
the world,
not singing
but a kind of pain.
Maybe listen
instead to birdsong,
fly out
as seed-robber
and speak
only the love
that has no name,
that cannot save.
from #45 - Fall 2014