Light and Shadows

Light and shadows I think we need quiet I think the quiet is always two things Shadows and light And I am learning to know them both As I am learning to know peace and be fine Or I am begging for it Peace in this loud tunnel of wind where we live Tunnel of noise that won't let up But also the flowers grow And the cold fall air blows leaves across concrete Where walking now I sense the storm shrinks miles between us A thousand years ago, on horse hooves Across heaven's desert to here And I am not wholly lost in the terrible beauty of it all It's low hum The feeling I know it's there, but cannot see it Not a ventilator, not a drone song But thunder from another world Three summers past Near Jackson Hole, Wyoming When the sun disappeared and we sat Our phones not ringing The sun in stream water reflected before darkness came The image of you pouring coffee There is room in this for us to feel happy