After midnight,
when the mind is safe
from the hungry day,
I can find retreat in half
dozed remembering,
and songs and words that
form up in this freedom of
darkness not malevolent
but a creative secret space.

Here in the delicious silence when
half the world’s asleep I discover
this time undiluted, filled with
the promise that there’s nothing
else but now in the shadowless
darkness that wraps me up and
takes me home to imagination.

 

28/6/2025