Love is a silence that neither looms nor locks

      Love is a silence that neither looms nor locks
      But travels with us openly lovely
      Even unto the very edge of doom&.
      It will not swerve in the loud lee of rocks
5     But carries all folded in its snows
      Come down clear from very Everest
      Luminous as knowing without a goal,
      Holding wild commotions calmed to its white breast.
      But if I may into this stillness speak
10    And give love words enough to fill a book
      That needs only silence and good love-looks,
      Or murmur wonder into a rocky crack,
      I'd say knowing you is knowing all
      And give my tongue rest to heed your eyes' call.

 

From the collection "Supposing Roses"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

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