mercury voices

in the stillness of this evening
cool not cold
breeze not wind
standing 

under 

this
black-velvet wonder dome
black as a wet river stone

a corvids feather,
black as grief

black as an Elvis Cadillac 

brilliant diamond night 

stars crystalline sharp
regard ....
brilliant
standing
veiled 

myth & rhyme
everything; 

god-gaia-oneness, beauty
forgiveness, need & hole-ness
winter's quickening pulse
and the rightness of one
. . . this is my intimacy, my touchstone
standing 

in the stillness of this evening
under this black sugar sky
with the quiet acceptance that my north star is

where you are