fascination o' jack-o'-lanterns round livid fruit already dulling sagging on an autumnal doorstep in a stone wind leaf-waste and the chill discussions of dust the light inside gleaming at all four windows of life laughing gusts of light flickering, now guttering and ah the darkness -- but it brightens and again life quickens, comic intelligence leaps out a quirk on the dark until it can leap no more falls, the darkness rushes in, tidal over the smell of snuffed wick and sweet flesh overheated. Used with the permission of Copper Canyon Press, P.O. Box 271, Port Townsend, WA 98368-0271, www.cc.press.org | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ANOTHER SONG WITHOUT WORDS by PAUL VERLAINE 1914: 5. THE SOLDIER by RUPERT BROOKE CAVALIER TUNES: BOOT AND SADDLE by ROBERT BROWNING ADDRESS TO A HAGGIS by ROBERT BURNS THE FALLEN STAR by GEORGE DARLEY HIS CAVALIER by ROBERT HERRICK ON THE MORNING OF CHRIST'S NATIVITY by JOHN MILTON |