This simple dance revolves around itself repeating intricate figures until its inevitable end.
And then? A riddle wrapped in the loose skin of the night beckons to us all the certainty of death leaves us wondering while stumbling along this frosted winter shore.
A thousand times a thousand ships have sailed daily and sent nary a missive home.
The signal fires are burning on forested headlands here along this rugged coast. Dark and solemn capes gather the pelting rain into their skirts.
The signaling smoke from fir-fed fires wraps itself in salt spray serves as a beacon for the lost a message to the departed.
Yet not a word not a message in a bottle from those who have set forth. 180 degrees of the compass and not a sail. The sea splendid and empty.
If no news is good news, then bliss is our birthright. If no news is something else again, then simple silence will be our wage.