Any Evening by James Richardson
“It has always been evening // and now you know.” — James Richardson
I Know A Man by Robert Creeley
“drive, he sd, for / christ’s sake, look / out where yr going.” — Robert Creeley
Moving On in the Dark Like Loaded Boats at Night, Though There is No Course, There is Boundlessness by Lucie Brock-Broido
“Why would what died once keep on dying off / Over & over like a seam in an old velvet coat?” — Lucie Brock-Broido
[You darkness, that I come from,] by Rainer Maria Rilke
“But the darkness pulls in everything: / shapes and fires, animals and myself, / how easily it gathers them! — ” — Rainer Maria Rilke
No Rush by Todd Dillard
“It’s quiet now, / the storm splits open like sacramental bread, / and I love you I love you. Can you hear me?” — Todd Dillard
Thanks by W. S. Merwin
"with the forests falling faster than the minutes / of our lives we are saying thank you" — W. S. Merwin
Still Life At Dusk by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
"All day you’ve been linked by / the light, but now that darkness / gathers the world in a great black tide, / your shadow leaves you to join / the sea of all other shadows." — Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
Why Are Your Poems So Dark? by Linda Pastan
"When God demanded light, / he didn't banish darkness." – Linda Pastan