"NIGHT YOU....."

Soft silent night your sighs sough with the breeze,

your wisdom smiles through fathoms, miles, mist,

personifies the dust of years, 

sings melodies with springs, 

roams the loam 

of centuries,

its messages in time, 

sticks the sense of place, 

and winds the spirit in 

on spindles dark, 

with silver flashing sheen,

cloaked secrecy, 

blurred visions, 

fission, fires, 

indigo and murky black, 

with planets spun from flares,

deep reaching fingered shadowed strips 

of rib-boned dreams,

that tie our consciousness in knots and bows,

set rattles, rustles, 

rumblings adrift,

ghost patterned spectres,

floating penetrating barriers,

stretched, severed, seared 

in cadences, strung,

from here to there 

to nowhere sinking, slinking, sly,

mysterious, mother of slumbers, 

you watch us live and die.