BETWEEN US (LOGATO): a poem from Italian Sonatas

I've been working a series of small poems, titled Italian Sonatas. This is one of them; they originate in little notes I've discovered in my notebooks and files, from the early Eighties. There is a theme....

Between Us (Logato)

There is nothing

soft, except

the way that night

Escapes your eyes

& drapes itself,

laughing light,

Round the arcs

Of shooting stars

Lost in their flight.