THE pine-trees bend to listen to the
autumn wind
as it mutters
Something which sets the black poplars ashake
with
hysterical laughter;
While slowly the house of day
is closing its eastern
shutters.
Further down the valley the
clustered tombstones
recede,
Winding about their dimness the mist’s
grey
cerements, after
The street lamps in the
darkness have suddenly
started to
bleed.
The leaves fly over the window and
utter a word as
they pass
To the face that leans from the darkness,
intent, with
two dark-filled eyes
That watch for ever earnestly
from behind the window
glass.