one from R.S. Thomas

But the silence in the mind

is when we live best, within

listening distance of the silence

we call God. This is the deep

calling to deep of the psalm-

writer, the bottomless ocean. 

We launch the armada 

of our thoughts on, never arriving.

It is a presence, then, 

whose margins are our margins; 

that calls us out over our

own fathoms. What to do

but draw a little nearer to

such ubiquity by remaining still?

--R.S. Thomas