04.12.18

Vancouver Writing: Pat Lowther

IN THE SILENCE BETWEEN

In the silence between the
notes of music
something is moving:
an animal
with the eyes of a man
multitudes
clothed in leaves

It is as if huge
migrations take place
between the steps
of music
like round
stones in water:
what flows between is
motion so constant
it seems still

Is it only the heart
beat
suspended like a planet
in the hollow body messages
of blood
or the sensed arrival
of photons
from the outer
galaxies?

A journey that far
we begin also
advancing
between
progressions of music
the notes make neuron
paths where we move
between earths
our heads full of leaves
our eyes like
the eyes of humans

-Pat Lowther: A Stone Diary