a good night to close the language door

courtesy nasa/jpl-caltech

i love that nasa colored this photo of saturn's moon, titan, so romantically and so glad i found it after feeling so weighed down all day with politics.

tonight, our own total lunar eclipse...
url: http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/LEmono/TLE2004Oct28/TLE2004Oct28.html


i will close the language-door.

When someone quotes the old poetic image
about clouds gradually uncovering the moon,
slowly loosen knot by knot the strings
of your robe.

Like this.
(rumi)

The way the night knows itself with the moon,
be that with me.

(rumi)

[At] night, I open the window and ask
the moon to come and press its

face against mine. Breathe into
me. Close the language-door and

open the love window. The moon
won't use the door, only the window.
(rumi)

maybe peace only uses windows, too...