nobody's up except the moon and me and a lazy old tomcat on a midnight spree

[two-grey-rooms.livejournal.com]

"Consider the Space between Stars"
Consider the white space
between words on a page, not just
the margins around them.

Or the space between thoughts:
instants when the mind is inventing
exactly what it thinks

and the mouth waits
to be filled with language.
Consider the space

between lovers after a quarrel,
the white sheet a cold metaphor
between them.

Now picture the brief space
before death enters, hat in hand:
vanishing years, filled with light.
--Linda Pastan