Tune your instrument
to the key of praise
while morning light
shines on the sea.

 

Trees lift their branches
in the rising breeze
and the sound of life
buzzes in the forest.

 

How important
must you be
when all around you
glows a miracle?

 

You might seem drunk
but given this beauty
the stones would shatter
had you not begun your song.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reading of “Given this Beauty” with music by Django Reinhardt.

I return to the sea,
her face and tide
the peace of my heart,
the words of our story.

 

From far north
to the straits of de Fuca,
the inland passage
speaks in ancient voice,
braided with fog
and the cry of gulls.

 

Younger than we were
yet so much older,
I carve this message
by the light of the moon,
that you might find me
on your way home.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reading of “As She Passes” with music by Claude Debussy.