Quiet’s Event
I
The mountains slowly emerge
out of mist and cloud
This is the epitome of quiet’s event
when the sun warm and filled with
distant barking of dogs
rises inevitably into the mind
rises into the world
and exists beyond abstraction
beyond any attempt to ignore
its objective presence, so that we feel
eternally alive.
But beneath the trees of the forest
the shadow is darker than the dim hue
of the mountains which too are shadowed in parenthesis