Door

When the night
              rubs out the horizon
              and all this black
              has more this quality of shade

and all the copsed trees
              cluster around sleeping fields
              and buried life waits and looks

a door in a heap of lived-in-stones opens,
              neon turns the cowshed
              into some kind of church.

This is the drained time,
              the false dawn
              that makes the morning man start.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2015

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