calm
 then the roaring wall of the eye
 as we sailed to the world
 from an insular life
 from the boughs that had sheltered us all of our lives
 from the sun's red blooming

 With a shadow on every life
 and we laid in the dark
 through the thundering nights
 and awoke to an ocean of shimmering white
 where the hull scrapes on the silent ice
 and the gulls on the frozen ropes

 Oh lights on the floor
 let the audience rise
 let them file through the halls
 still assured in their lives
 until the sky shudders open
 impossibly wide
 and the room glows in the sudden light
 and they are gone
 they are gone for life