The Silence Gathers
At the edge of evening
the forest gives up its gold.
Nothing calls.
Nothing answers.
A little wind moves through the leaves,
and the leaves are still.
In the deep hush
where root, stone, and shadow
have nearly become one body,
a single pane of light
finds the moss
and remains—
so quietly
the silence gathers round it.
—
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