The dark as time
breached will fade
as rising light
ingests its shade.

Asterisk stars
perforate night,
thick sable pall
siphoned white.

To a pendulum text
all grief consents:
white days, but next,
night's grave descents.


WFD
'Descant'- Texas Christian University
Literary Journal Vol.26. No.2.

William F Dougherty

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