I need silence to touch my soul

Nighthawks, 1924

Edward Hopper

Pelvis I, 1944

Georgia O’Keeffe

Where We Live

Where We Live
by Harry Clifton

Where we live no longer matters
If it ever did, the difference
Between North and East, South and West,
Belfast Central, or Budapest,
Currency changed, like innocence,
For the life that was going to be ours.

Let us admit it. There are powers
No border can contain.
They sit with us, the uninvited guests,
Wherever our table is laid,
Accepting a second coffee,
Awaiting the end of the story.