Daniel Hoffman’s poem, “A Stillness,” appeared in NER 1.2 (1978):
Each bead of the mist is burning
with the joy
of a resurrected soul.
A will within it,
draws it back from me a little—the cove,
a beach of shallow pools
behind the sandbars, and the bay
without motion
blending, somewhere
into the fog, the infinite empire
of floating fiery light.