Pond Song 3.54
Openness such that it seems there is nothing there, but the nothing is the silence into which the fulness of the reserved divinity is worded. G&B 274
meadowsweet all battered__old oak branches hang broken
that microburst hit home__crazy words stick once spoken
the pond almost empty__not a pond really a pool
child of sea and moon__a gull takes short steps to feel
good stuff on the bottom__the Sabbath silence sings
neighborhood crows and sparrows__the way a boy’s bat pings