Chasing Night.
I chased this evening evening's painterly
tints blatantly seizing sky-time before
sun-down display.
Dark's parade festooned in anodyne darts
of bright lunar-spears seared twilight
and flamed the lake.
Silver-foil ribbons began to invade pallid
glow as granite-grey filigree skirted
today's farewell.
Patterns of sparkle captured the change
to best forgotten wet afternoon when
heavens melted,
Night's foot now dry left silvery scuff
on watery top of eel-thread shapes
moving with breeze.
Moon-glinted landscape seduced as
with ghostly aliveness, by chasing
night, night chased me.
Sep 20, 2016
Sep 20, 2016 at 11:59 AM UTC
Chasing Night.
I chased this evening evening's painterly
tints blatantly seizing sky-time before
sun-down display.
Dark's parade festooned in anodyne darts
of bright lunar-spears seared twilight
and flamed the lake.
Silver-foil ribbons began to invade pallid
glow as granite-grey filigree skirted
today's farewell.
Patterns of sparkle captured the change
to best forgotten wet afternoon when
heavens melted,
Night's foot now dry left silvery scuff
on watery top of eel-thread shapes
moving with breeze.
Moon-glinted landscape seduced as
with ghostly aliveness, by chasing
night, night chased me.
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