Whatever it is in us
that knows how to listen,
that. I want to align
myself with that
until deep listening
is common and astonishing
as starlight.
Until I am so humbled
by the holiness of the world
around and inside us
I feel myself moored
by the strong rope
of silence that tethers me
to every other voice,
to every other silence
and tugs me toward
what marvel I can
not know.