Message in the Bottle
(From Vespernaculum painting Message in the bottle 3)
from here to there
and back again
through the shining dark
where we remember
having forgotten
how close
we always
were
you asked, once,
why stars blink
in morse code
across night
uncounted
eyes opening
each to each
i cup this reply
in liquid light
released to drift
between forms
that form us
again
there is no distance
only depth
in which we
meet ourselves
coming