Scott Simpson · Poetry

As Night Approaches

Selected Poems 1989 to 2009 · source pages 282

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Source page 282

As Night Approaches

I watch the sky

drain from bright blue

to purple

and finally into

deep violet

streaked with bits

of red

She is behind me inside the

house

washing up after

dinner

Clink, clank

plate on plate

and her humming

soft, sure

happy

are the only sounds

as night falls