Poems for the Twilight

Poems for the Twilight is a book of forty poems by Robert E. Watson. They range from grief as in “At a Brother’s Coffin” (which asks, “To what new friends and what strange place / And where in the circling, infinite void of space / Has gone that light which made him feel / Life’s joy and pain and love’s appeal? “) to anger as in “Point of Order” (which asks after the death of a friend and his family in a car accident, “Who was it brought about / This obscene transformation / After so many afflictions? / Was it the Universe Man / With his contract in his pocket?”/ “Or was it moldering nature, / Dragging its corrupted foot and reaching out with decomposing fingers / For the closest throat? With dead eyes / It sees no distinction between the cockroach / And the bleating lamb torn by salivating jaws”). Yes, this book is contemplation in a mystic world.