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...SEPULCHRE by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: HENRY PHIPPS by EDGAR LEE MASTERS THE NEGRO DANCERS by CLAUDE MCKAY HOMAGE TO SEXTUS PROPERTIUS: 9 by EZRA POUND THE CHARGE OF THE BREAD BRIGADE by EZRA POUND SONGS OUT OF SORROW: REFUGE by SARA TEASDALE BALLADE MADE FOR HIS MOTHER THAT SHE MIGHTE PRAYE by FRANCOIS VILLON |