Dark of the Moon

Chapter 58: Foreknown

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About This Book

A collection of lyric poems organized into thematic sections that dwell on natural landscapes, seasonal change, and intimate emotion. Short, image-driven pieces range from moonlit nights and coastal scenes to autumnal boulevards and secluded woods, often pairing precise sensory detail with reflections on longing, love, memory, and mortality. Portraits of individuals and quiet elegies appear alongside meditations on stars and tides, producing a restrained, musical voice that emphasizes transience and beauty through concise, resonant language.

Foreknown

They brought me with a secret glee

The news I knew before they spoke,

And though they hoped to see me riven,

They found me light as dry leaves driven

Before the storm that splits an oak.

For I had learned from many an autumn

The way a leaf can drift and go,

Lightly, lightly, almost gay

Taking the unreturning way

To mix with winter and the snow.