By Shadow Known

      I did not know how clouds could crowd
      The weathered Earth by blowing round,
      Or drop deep shadows by their light,
      Too much lightness in sun's too much light.
5     'Til one day their dark put me dark-
      Crowded me out by high-shadowed marks
      From old communion with the sun;
      Daily now my darkness comes.
      I, who had been a burning cloud,
10    Now in noon-night perform my rounds.
      Were I to shred their silver dark,
      New light would blind by being stark.

 

From the collection "The Timid Leaper"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

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