O world, I cannot hold thee close enough!
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay from "God’s World" in RENASCENCE AND OTHER POEMS
The music finishes.
It is the quiet of night
Broken by the ticking of a clock,
the hiss of rain,
the growling of a distant car.
The silence of this interval
is not for doing,
not for resting
But to wonder in;
A vulnerable silence
given back to us.