Catherine Chandler's Poetry Blog

Saturday, October 5, 2024

Nuit blanche

 

 

White Night, by Edvard Munch, 1901

White Night

 

Minutes. Hours. Darkness pressing   

through the window. Not a breeze.   

Freight trains at the level crossing                

wail and goad my turning, tossing.               

Lurid ciphers lengthen, glossing                                

over time’s hypotheses.            

Night attends my second-guessing    

days we were not meant to seize.


 

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