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10:11 p.m. - 2008-07-01
Night Truths
Stephen Dunn I've known an edginess, come evening, when I havn't chosen to be alone, but am, the necessity of music, the implacable silence of the telephone, when my faith is faith in the provisional, wild, no consolation in it, and deeply, late at night, in the peaty, musk-scented, moon-driven dark I've felt so singular, so importantly sorry for myself, or so exquisetly stilled, attuned, that I knew there were night truths unavailable to lovers or the loved, thought I might be close to them, and have put off sleep because sleep is social, intrusive, all the uninvited waiting to makes their appearances, put it off until it came for me, ignorantly, persuasive
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