The thin strip of bright light
Offers an entrance
To transcendence
The moss and lichen
On the winter branches
Suggests time longer than time itself
Daughter, mother, granddaughter
Capture the generations
With life; with old life, with new life
Beside the visual
Also the ethereal
And the ancestral
We can think of rooftops
And cafés by the quay
Eating Pastéis de Nata
Those thin strips of bright light
Equanimous, as forms
For insight and reflection
