In The Stillness Poem by S.M. Kozubek

The snow leopard settles

in stillness.

Smoke streams whirl

up chimneys,

slowly swirl, then

dart on the wind

westward to linden trees

and vanish

like souls returning

to galaxies spinning

in the stillness

of the silent All.


Night whispers

as the ashen cloak

of smoke

settles in the air

and drifts
down

where others lie

at rest.