- Equal Night
Refusing to movethe stone away
I remain on guardaccustomed to the dark
the stone and Iside by side
listening hard againstthe silence without
even the motion of thoughtThe autumn owl
stutters a different callfrom summer's burst
the swiveling brainseeing while I stand
shoulder pressed to rockremembering the coal
the way snow recallswater
curved by our mineralweight
Refusing to movethe stone away
I have kept it very wellthis porous hearth
my companion beneathheaven lost to gravity [End Page 141]