Black of night
Before the light of dawn
Silence and stillness
Shares the warm welcome
As you remember
Also rising early
To see the pink-footed geese
To tread on the firm and frosted ground
Those higher plains
Of tied together emotions
Struggling to capture
What needed to be caught
Such that friendship
May be moved up
By a notch or two
To something other
Where love becomes lovers
Where distance pulls up close
Where heartache takes a step
Or a leap, into ecstatic joy
