I wrote this poem on a warm afternoon near the end of November. I was walking the dogs outside wearing only a t-shirt and jeans. The sun was warm and the day was brighter than I expected it to be as it moved westward across the sky above us. I wanted to capture the feeling I had this afternoon so I chose to write a tanka poem to share my afternoon experience with you! Let me know what you think, ok?
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we now have a very early twilight and night descending. By 5:30 pm, it’s dark! It makes no sense to me to do this time change – we still get up in the dark, and now, we have one less hour in our afternoon before it gets dark. In my writing over the decades, darkness is a recurring theme. I focus on dark and darkness a lot in all seasons and it is a metaphor that shows up consistently in my poetry often.
I wrote this poem about drawing one night when I was in my room at a farm house, Bachmannhof , in Grödig, Austria. I lived there every summer for fourteen years.
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