A Letter To Ruth Stone

Now that you have caught sight of the other side of darkness the invisible side so that you can tell it is rising first thing in the morning and know it is there all through the day another sky clear and unseen has begun to loom in your words and another light is growing out of their shadows you can hear it now you will be able to envisage beyond any words of mine the color of these leaves that you never saw awake above the still valley in the small hours under the moon three nights past the full you know there was never a name for that color From 'The Shadow Of Sirius' Publisher: Copper Canyon Press (September 1, 2008)