Never more, yet forever
To find a note of golden strands across a truffled plate.
To see a village light emitted in an urban robe,
To taste the evening near a landmark arch
Unrecognized as portal to a hidden world.
  
Never more, yet forever
To enter as an acolyte into a guarded temple,
To find brief refuge from a winter night,
To hear a samba’s rhythm in a Roman tongue,
Unrecognized as shaman songs that fade too soon.