night paddling the land blacker than the sea


2 Responses

  1. snowbirdpress Says:

    Ah! see how the water catches the moonlight!

  2. donnafleischer Says:

    Night as an active agent of black "paddling the land" takes it out of that sense of night "falling" and once "fallen" well, there is nothing, it is dead, static. But the verb the poem makes use of makes the blackness move within us and around us once again, instilling its fear and mystery. Thank you for the fine poem.

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