Opening
Into your deepening eyes I fall
in a rush of wordless suprise
opening and opening
I open now and forever
I hear the air like mist
and feel the wheeling stars like stone
When finally I turn away
A thousand ways alone
I stand so lightly and so tall
On a featureless darkened shore
The stars fall burning before me
hissing as the water snuffs them out
Copyright 01-31-92 Unpublished Works William M. Shannon