We were riding through frozen fields

in a wagon at dawn.

A red wing rose in the darkness.

And suddenly a hare ran across the road.

One of us pointed to it with his hand.

That was long ago.

Today neither of them is alive,

Not the hare, nor the man who made the gesture.

O my love, where are they, where are they going

The flash of a hand, streak of movements, rustle of pebbles.

I ask not out of sorrow, but in wonder

- Czeslaw Milosz, "Encounter"

Icon is by wicca-jaz over at LJ.