The Usage of Returns

there are several kinds of returns

most common are those that return to the start

the return when it grows late at night

the return of the letter, addressee unknown

the awakening into a brilliant bedroom

after passing through the tunnel of sleep

there are also cyclical returns

the rebirth of the moon in the blackest night

the eruption of green after rain

the angled migration of geese back north

the walk with my niece, grown taller, one year later,

to a blinding beach, her hand again in mine

but my return is none of these

my return has neither start nor finish

mine is the return of the plane that draws

its silver arc then turns back the way it came

mine is the return abandoning the safety of the written line

for emptiness where no words await