"an unexpected alchemy..."

“I see the sea, the utterly calm sea.
I see the coast, the utterly calm coast.
When this utterly calm sea
meets the utterly still coast,
huge breakers are suddenly thrown up.
Two sorts of stillness touch one and other
and explode into a song of roar and foam.”
― S. Lindqvist

theirs is
an unexpected
alchemy

an irrational
concrescence

there is
nothing predictable
about the
way

they touch,
and dance,
and change each other....

"oh, no"
they whisper in
the public square,

"...she is
not for him...too
quiet,
reserved,
almost as still
as a fawn in the forest...

"...not enough
of what is missing,
to bring out
his inner something,
all that's
hidden,
and buried
beneath the
surface

"...don't you
see,
they are too
much alike...

"...both seeking silence
over society,
solitude
before all else,
such introverts.

"...he needs someone
more outgoing,
funny,
quick on her feet...

"...opposites
attract...right?"

what what they do not
know
is that in the
edge foam of their
shared quiet,
there is laughter,
joy,
something richer,
deeper,
a song much sweeter
than either of them
could have
known
from the sweet
silence of their
separateness

her calm giving
context to
the texture of his
unruffled
poise...and on the
sands of
her windswept,
linen-colored soul,
the beauty
of his alabaster
heart
shines...

the shapes and shades of
their
days are punctuated,
not by
a vast color pallet,
but by the
soft shadows cast in
the changing light of another
changeless day...

their shared solitude
breaking, like
waves upon
a colorless
shore...

and in the
surf,
there is
laughter...and
a rich
love
only
dreamed of...

a sea song
that
draws
us
in

“Kindred tastes,
motives, and aspirations.
are necessary to the formation of
and permanent companionship”
― M. B. Eddy