Quote of the moment

When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

-Wendell Berry: The Peace or the Wild Things

Dec 6, 2008

Dew



Perfect silence an instant after dawn
Low mist rising off water an eerie brew
Enveloping all in cover as all stand still
Spider webs shimmer with glaze of dew

Surreal pause in the fabric of time
Observed by beast and human mind
Even to breath would seem a crime
Whispers sound like deafening noise unkind

Leaves glisten with misty jewels
First light of day prisms in the dew
Lone bird sings, greeting the sun
As aurora sky bleeds to blue

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