Snow flurries
Give the time
To search out retreats
Pick a collection of poems
Written in the summer
Beside a Cornish sea
To have found such time
Although you are away
You have given this space
The hope of contemplation
A garden and a window
Warm fire for the winter
Closer to a life
That bathes in Brahms’ music
A life that took us to the water
To nights spent in lively bars
Where we drank deeply, and
Engaged in rapturous conversation
Love then
Is this continuum
From a silence to a cacophony
Sweet whispers to glorious yells
All as all, always and alone, and
Both part of the congregation