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TINO VILLANUEVA

SOMETHING BEYOND LIGHT

Horizon

cleared of mist,

claiming part beauty, part dreams.

I move toward it

in search of names worth saving,

ordering stages of my life

within the grace

that keeps giving.

Unbounded, the landscape

and the simple stones

shudder in dawn's cast.

I accent this endless peace

I am called to by something beyond light:

Everything matters,

feels more generous, alive.

I see

as I've never seen before.

In this long shimmering present,

I write out my heart's memory,

'tell stories

under the spell of my own senses.

Line by line

I break silence

with words too sudden to refuse.

Copyright Q 1984 by Tino Villanueva, from Shaking Off the Dark

(Tempe, AZ: Bilingual Press, 1998), ã1984, 1998 by Tino Villanueva.