Concerning Love
By Daniel Thomas Moore
There need not
be words contained
in this space,
Nothing of adorned
thoughts to make
that silence shimmer.
A draped hush yet
something to heard,
a place beckoning
to be entered.
We listen for echoes
and often know none,
even as we search the
breathless remote for
what lingers of memory,
longing, and time.
But there will always
be the consoling depths
of a tenderness that binds
the anguished heart.
Daniel Thomas Moran, born in New York City in 1957, is the author of seventeen collections of poetry. In the Kingdom of Autumn, was published by Salmon Poetry in Ireland in 2020, who also published his previous collection, A Shed for Wood in 2014. His Looking for the Uncertain Past was published by Poetry Salzburg in 2005. His new collection, Five Questions will be published by Salmon Poetry in early 2026. He has had more than four hundred-fifty poems published in some twenty-five countries. This is his third collection from Cyberwit who previously published his Perhaps It Was Not Mars in 2024 and Balance-New and Selected Poems in 2020. In 2005, he was appointed Poet Laureate by The Legislature of Suffolk County, New York. His collected papers are being archived by The Dept. of Special Collections at Stony Brook University. He is a retired Clinical Assistant Professor from Boston University's School of Dental Medicine. He and his wife Karen live in New Hampshire.
