five easy pieces

the quietness, the space. the northern soul against sun-and-wheat-consciousness. reticence before mystery. horizons where lost futures meet. and fall. an endurance beyond pessimism. sheltering before the fierceness of the day. the darkness of the mind alone without God. difficult freedom. silver inherits the black. a fleeting glance, reflected light, stone heart. your face. a memory. of shade and solace. a sense of one's own gravity, the lightness of the world...the seriousness of having no purpose, the ability to not be oneself and to be okay with that. a sadness that will not break. the finite slowness of being, curving away from the hands. the cosmic play, the blueness of distance. the desire to escape, the love of things that die, the death of things like love.