Silent resonance.

Silent resonance. Early spring;the water is cold.You place your handsupon it, palms open;flat, as if to floatupon the surface of life.This sea;your life; my life ...all the space between,invisible; an infiniteexpansion;breathtaking catastrophe.Along the shore,you commune, half-despairingthe flesh that holds you in;wanting to stepout of demanding skin ...To what then?What is there but this?Know this is you.Dimensionless, your fingerstrace the places where lifewalks; please salvagethe scarred answers;speak the syllables whichexisted before sound;the truth between breaths.Palms wet,I hold each sideof your face; beg youdissolve;there is no between ...only here, only this;your inhale; my exhaleWe hunger for effortless language,stumble over nouns and verbsthat settle nothing.This pantomime repeats;our invention; our excuse;a closing act where most fallgluttonous on indolent pitches;empty promises of accidental touch.Elsewhere,beyond definitionwe wheel as one.I touchmy palms towater, leavingyour fingerprints DALE WINSLOW * * Dale Winslow is a writer currently living in Victoria, BritishColumbia British Columbia,province (2001 pop. 3,907,738), 366,255 sq mi (948,600 sq km), including 6,976 sq mi (18,068 sq km) of water surface, W Canada.Geography , Canada Canada(kăn`ədə), independent nation (2001 pop. 30,007,094), 3,851,787 sq mi (9,976,128 sq km), N North America. Canada occupies all of North America N of the United States (and E of Alaska) except for Greenland and the French islands of . She has a B.Sc in Wildlife Biology biology,the science that deals with living things. It is broadly divided into zoology, the study of animal life, and botany, the study of plant life. Subdivisions of each of these sciences include cytology (the study of cells), histology (the study of tissues), from The Universityof Guelph The University of Guelph is a medium-sized university located in Guelph, Ontario, established in 1964. While the U of G offers degrees in many different disciplines, the university is best known for its focus on life sciences, based in part on a long-standing history of and a B.Ed. from The University of Victoria.