What the Evening Brings
I am singing to my dead African mother tonight
tonight the music swims from my deep-honey tongue
into the moon-washed sky of onyx rot
I am writing with a crippled hand, a shattered mind
is only cozy when the medicine slowly takes
and soothes with the chill of autumn glass
I am believing, I am in desperate need of confession
of possession by a being less likely to steal
kisses and whiskey from full-moon girls
I am frightening the baby boy or the Elephant Man
I can't tell which when the night is this thick
with answers and mongrels pining to dine
But I am not of the right mind.
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Submitted on November 04, 2009
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | XXX AXX XXX XXX A |
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Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 570 |
Words | 110 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 1 |
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