The Pause Between

A quiet ring where meanings gather — the day’s bright hush.

A single sea ripple expanding toward a sunlit shoreline
A quiet ring where meanings gather.

The shore inhales, the water sighs —
a silver breath beneath the skies.
No note, and yet the quiet sings
of tethered moon and loosened wings.

Between the wave and what it means,
a stillness holds the tender scenes:
a shell, a stone, a thread of light,
the day unlacing into night.

I learn to wait where ripples start —
that small soft circle in the heart.
In resting there, I come to know
how things are played in undertow.