OUTSIDE THE FRAME

It is enough, now, anywhere,

with everyone you love there to talk to.

And to listen.

Slowly we can tell each other some things about our lives:

runs, rests, brief resolutions; falls, and lulls;

hard joyful runs, in certainty; dull, sweet

durances, human silences;

                                              look back in at the children,

the regular, neutral flicker of their blood; pale, solemn,

long-legged animal-gods in their sleep,

growing into their lives, in their sleep.