for "poem on your blog day"

[jaeclectic]

An old favorite, not necessarily relevant to anything at the moment (not necessarily irrelevant):

By the Mailbox

The message you send me
is silence. It is a message
I try to understand
the way the roots
of trees must understand
the mitigating silence of water.
We take from nature
what we can. I study
the silences of stars, of stones.
I picture you miles north
leaning over the empty page.
Dear... you want to write.
But already the page is a window
curtained in the early silence
of snow.

Linda Pastan
from Waiting for my Life
(c) 1981