Most of us

are not calm

neither outside

not inside

nor any

or everywhere

Most of us

refuse our invitation to this space/place

where sun lingers and is soft

and within her angles

there is love,

serene and moving.

But you

start here,

you feel the warm sky,

and the silence which stills

assorted

ambitious thoughts.

Steve Ilg

Durango

(first published in The Climbing Art Magazine, 1988)