Rain Fog Day Night

Rain Fog Day Night

2 December 2018

jp

Rain

            Day

Somewhere temperature hovers around zero

Rain patters steadily against windows on roof

Light grey next to silvery shadow

Sepia toned wooden chairs and log walls

Edges soft blurred focus

The dog licks her claws and chews her pads

Water rivulets run down the window panes

Steady low deep silence embedded

In the photograph around me

Stillness

I sip my tea

The cup’s warmth curling through my fingertips

Swirling through my soul.

Fog

            Night

Impenetrable.

Flashlight casts cone of light.

Very quiet.

Thud of heartbeat in my ears.

Cold moisture in my nostrils, smell of liquid forest deep in my lungs.

My eyes pinch from the wet chill, tearing.

I turn off the flashlight.

The silence lifts me from my bones.

All weight dissolved, my skin tingling in ecstasy.

Breathe.

Deeply.

Lungs fill.

My mind clears from cacophony.

I hear… listening.

Buoyed off my feet and lifted weightless

By the silent chorus angels of infinity.