The curl of words

(with thanks to Robin Winckel)

we were sitting in the garden, talking, I remember,
about the ending of our days —not scared,
but simple anticipation
of the inevitable finality,
closed curtain.
You said: there will be nothing,
just a great stillness.
I said: there will be great stillness
and enormous light
filling everything, brighter than everything,
and it will be all questions and all answers understood;
a feast of knowing
and great gladness

(South Holland/North Holland, August 2026)