Draft



Or write as poem. The whole point is often
what we miss out on. To revise is to reconsider
the experience of, say, a leaf - never mind
that it is not green anymore. Or, pardon the sudden
evening. The transition was nice enough;
the explosive colors of dusk. And, didn't you feel
so much sadness? I cannot explain it any better
than how I could when the outlines were still there:
trees and some wonderful new shapes.
Since then, things have changed. A pale hand
moves in the darkness. And someone is calling out,
come to bed, come to bed. And it is just you.
The evening insists on evening. It is that simple.
It is late enough as it is
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABCADEBFGHIJKL
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 623
Words 122
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14

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