Long Nocturn Poems

Drifting in silence, no haven in sight,
Alone in the crowd, under the pale moonlight.
Whispers of home, now ghosts in the wind,
A solitary journey, with no beginning or end.
Love's sweet chorus, a forgotten song,
In its absence,...

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A lone wolf yowls lachrymose,
At a lowly weeping full moon,
A hyperborean chill blows,
To quake the trees snow-clad festoon.

Reverent icy waters stand still,
Solid as old placid cold stone,
And crystallize its surface frill,
Webbing fractures as cracking bone.

The...

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The male ward is never quiet at night,
machines hooked-up to invisible bodies
buzz and beep.
Someone’s moaning in his sleep.
I listen to the late-shift nurses gossiping
at their station.
Follow their footsteps as they move
from somewhere to some other...

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In the country we see more
when it is the darkest.
Horses shine in the moonlight.
Stars bore holes through infinity.

When a full moon
leaps over the trees
the land ripples
with nocturnal exposures,
things unnoticed in daylight.

After a deep gloom
when nothing...

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Inspired by Waterside Nocturn by Fred Uhlman. An oil painting on canvas

Cruel winds freeze boats in tilting pose
Now the storm has passed
Calm moonlit inspection starts
Men step on sheets of ice
The lunar landscape depicted 
In lumpy...

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It occurs on the edge of light
a dim tinged dark is rolled back
followed by dream-walking eyes.

A time when heroes 
are at their weakest,
when troops turn restlessly 
in their fox holes,
where lions hunt inside 
a rapidly...

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When the eyes could no longer hold what’s brimming
and the fingers do nothing
but spread it on to what’s wrinkling.

When the voice is a strange thing
for the continuous vowels are worn out…shrieked at himself.

Then the narcissistic...

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