Paintbox

foxandrabbit

     illustration-Jeanne Poland

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friendly foil-furry toil-soil’s

herbal comfort oil

Riddle#21 Darkness

purple world
Still the darkness sings its song:
Slow, gentle, silhouettes
Etch to dusk, coil o’er eyelids
Shadowed feasts; weathered fetes.

This poem is a response to a prompt from David Harrison:

New challenge from J. Patrick Lewis: “In the lives of . . . “