fascination o' jack-o'-lanterns round livid fruit already dulling sagging on an autumnal doorstep in a stone wind leaf-waste and the chill discussions of dust the light inside gleaming at all four windows of life laughing gusts of light flickering, now guttering and ah the darkness -- but it brightens and again life quickens, comic intelligence leaps out a quirk on the dark until it can leap no more falls, the darkness rushes in, tidal over the smell of snuffed wick and sweet flesh overheated. Used with the permission of Copper Canyon Press, P.O. Box 271, Port Townsend, WA 98368-0271, www.cc.press.org | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONG OF THE STYGIAN NAIADES by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES THE POET AND HIS BOOK by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY THE MILL by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 47 by ALFRED TENNYSON TO GEORGE CRUIKSHANK, ESQ., ON SEEING HIS PICTURE ... by MATTHEW ARNOLD SONNET: 19 by RICHARD BARNFIELD SARAH THREENEEDLES (BOSTON, 1698) by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE LOVE SONNETS OF PROTEUS: 68. THE THREE AGES OF WOMAN: 3 by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT |