A Seeming Stillness

We love the movement in a seeming stillness

Photo: © David Whyte

A Seeming Stillness

We love the movement in a seeming stillness,
the breath in the body of the loved one sleeping,
the highest leaves in the silent wood,
a great migration in the sky above:
the waters of the earth, the blood in the body,
the first, soft, stir in the silence beneath a strident
voice, the internal hands of our mind,
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