Nothing Between

Our God comes openly, he keeps silence no longer.

The Lord, the God of gods has spoken:

  he has summoned the whole earth, from east to west.

God has shone forth from Zion in her great beauty.

  Our God will come, and he will not be silent.

Before him, a devouring fire;

  around him, a tempest rages.

Psalm 49

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Everywhere this layering-- 

the spent leaves

over the receding green

and tarnished-gold folding fields;

the undulating clamor
of the dark migrating

and the clear, air-
bells tingling

from the towers of silence;

the soul withdrawing 
and the heart beginning to breathe 
in the waves of loss;

the bright-scudding clouds

and the light-less beneath;

the falling fires of the trees

that are now turning, 

tumbling,

singularly sculpting

the sky beautiful,

as if the dark settlements 
were far away;

as if the ground and gravity 

had no say;

as if the moment

was everything

becoming 

inside 

Your love,

with nothing

between.