Thursday, December 7, 2006

Sailor's Night



I saw Black last night
Not the shadows that terrify children,
not the photographer's pseudo dark.
I saw BLACK, virgin BLACK.
A starless, Pacific shroud
engulfing the universe.

(Ok, so I was technically Catholic,
not yet Episcopalian
when writing this near Manila
in the month that was the end of the
Vietnam War - April 1975)


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