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Poems that explore the interstice between light and dark, day and night, perhaps even good and evil.
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Bernard Fancher
I live on a small and mostly defunct farm in western New York, where the events of a typical day include writing and walking my dogs--items not necessarily listed in order of priority. (At least not from the dogs' point of view.)
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Before Dark, and After - Bernard Fancher
Before Dark, and After
A Collection of Poems
by
Bernard Fancher
Smashwords Edition
Copyright 2012 by Bernard Fancher
All rights reserved
This ebook is licensed by Smashwords, and may not otherwise be disseminated
without the author’s permission.
***
Table of Contents
Enclosure
First Light
Flight
Storm Warning
Dare
Going Home
Arid Dream
Aural Journey
A Field Guide to the Birds
Fox Grapes
Feeding Horses
In Praise of Existential Awareness
Full Moon Fever
Between the Lightning and the Lightning Bug
Diminuendo
Early Spring
Curvature
Northern Night
Once on a Blue Moon
Moment
Our Walk, First Thing this Morning
Parting
Aftermath
Snow Moon
The Leonid Meteor Shower
Shy of Heaven
Tenuousness
Riding Blind at Night
Three Crows
I Went for a Walk
Midnight on Moss Lake
Before Dark
Afterglow
***
Enclosure
Beneath the tree where the young buck nuzzled
The ground picking green acorns out of dried leaves,
I sat in the half tire swing only moments away
From learning this place was mine, a few feet
Away from where the young deer years later stood
Entirely unaware of my ghost presence, close enough
To reach out and, if not touch, at least scare him;
I stand in the open doorway at the front of the house
In midwinter now, considering the doe
Who stood entranced before my first fire, wondering
If she might be the granddame of the young
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