No Words

I have no words tonight.

They are all lying quietly

in the wake of this past week.

No words except

    Gratitude

   Joy

          Love

for family born and family made

   for old friends gathered in great bouquets

~ I have no words tonight.

“It has always taken me a long time to think of something to say, 
and then more often than not I say it to myself.”
~ Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow