Halving the Night

"Halving the night
frogs croaking
cock crowing
morning and night together" – Snyder, from "Stages of the End of Night and Coming Day"








Only a step away
out past metal fence
Monona Drive
and the skirt of the lake–
blue bold and big
yes indeed

but look here
where I'm standing
up at the top
of the rock garden
creek, where dreams
of green have
taken hold

you and I
what's underneath
that fresh blanket
of duckweed
below?