Elizabeth H. Nearing Night Poems
- 1. The End Of Beauty
There are always fields, filled
with flowers, or something sweeping, like wind
tickling the hairs of your arm, that sinking feeling
... - 2. Sonnet Of Death
From out the rumpled home of dreadful things
A clearing light emerges. Far beyond,
The hills lurch deep into the night. Bells ring
aloud. They drown the darkness with their sound,
... - 3. How To Disappear Completely And Never Be Found
Icicles like ladies' fingernails
hang over the driveway, threatening
each day to fall.
The frost from last night's
...
