When fogs come crafty down the mountainside

      When fogs come crafty down the mountainside
      And quell the summer's green in mumming mists,
      Pulling light into their hill-killer blindness,
      Then all my night's in new bright dark espied
5     And all I had thought hid in nightmares dead
      Is come again unaccountable as cold,
      A softly omnipresent nameless dread
      That steals whatever warmth dawn had willed.
      And blind again at dawn in the soulless cold,
10    I see my rapture-nightmares in brightness rolled
      And confront the sourceless something of my soul:
      Hill on hill within, revealing valley,
      Valley, valley, does nothing to allay
      My sense that sense itself must this nothing sully.

 

From the collection "Supposing Roses"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

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