silence

purple blue waves
and a center as
thick and black
as plum pudding
at christmas, while
i swam slowly
in this lake,
head above the water
without light,
except for the candle
that you held on
the shore. you said
nothing. which
said everything
to me. there was
only the sound of
my arms going over
and over, swimming
gently toards an
undiscovered place.
and you in white,
holding some distant
flame of light.