Portals.

Doors of second-hand stores, book stores, and record stores.

Lids of coffee bins, tea jars, and beer bottles.

Exit ramps, highways, and sky-ways.

Pages of books, lines of poetry, and notes of songs.

Eyes of sapphire, of emerald, and of amber.

The smell of ink, coffee, and the prairie.

Laughter of infants, tears of mothers, and smiles of lovers.

The bang of a drum, the pluck of a string, and the hammer of a piano.
Interlocked fingers, eyes, and lips.

The colour of the sky, the ocean, and the Milky Way from earth.

The babble of a brook, the rush of a river, and the crash waves.

Portals.