A small library of night

Six poems for the hour after sunset.

Bright language against a dark sky. Choose a card, or let chance carry you to a surprise.

Poem 01

Lantern Season

Paper moons along the lane,
a hush of amber, slow as tea.

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Poem 02

The River Keeps Time

It does not hurry, though it goes.
It learns the stones by heart.

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Poem 03

Atlas of Small Rooms

Here is the chair that knows your coat,
the lamp that keeps a private sun.

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Poem 04

Citrus Moon

The moon comes up like sliced-open fruit,
too bright, too close, a sweet excess.

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Poem 05

After the Rain

The street is new, the leaves are glass.
A bus sighs by, then silver hush.

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Poem 06

Letters to the Horizon

I write to where the road goes thin,
to weather I have never met.

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