Breathing Space.

Today,

a day away from the fray

for me.

Moving through sunlight,

sunlight through trees.

Autumn has been halted

in it's steps.

A bright, solitary journey south

into the hills,

with only Megafauns-

deep, sincere and in my ear.

A few hours of something else entirely,

wholly out of my comfort zone,

in a room full of strangers

and a scattering of friends.

And still.

I return to the garden

where the radiant, stilly air hangs in a hush.

And through the open window

the joyous delinquent laughter of little boys.

My heart is pierced

and filled.