in the cities late at night
the darkness
never fully arrives
a complicit light reaches
into every yard stretches
along the streets
at some point snow
a spattered curtain
adds even more bright
to the always held at bay
dark & slowly
begins to outline branches
a delicate & deliquescent
etching emerging
to be lost by morning
Douglas Barbour
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Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuations 2 (UofAPress).
Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
Listen. If (UofAPress):
and as you read
the sea is turning its dark pages
turning
its dark pages.
Denise Levertov
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