Sunday, October 25, 2015

Clarity

There are August nights when streams
Of light can pierce the dark so cleanly
That they can illuminate a smallest
Spot very clearly.
She tells me that she wakes such nights to see
My face lit by the moon
And that she studies the hollow
Around my eyes as if that light
Has penetrated enough time
To let her see those lambent dreams
Glimmering upon the first years;
Those dreams which youth pursues
Like Canadian Geese at dusk
Chasing the moon before it lights

The ground below them.

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