An Evening's Entertainment

Selected poems from a lifetime of published and unpublished poems by poet and translator William Elliott.Poems include:Deeper DarkThere is a dark deeper. Than shadows' darkness:Remember the air Blanketing the pages. In a closed book, where Darkness is utter.Pointed Out. A covey of quail. Flushed from my brain. Flutter to new cover. Here in the bramble of a poem,Pretty well-camouflaged.What Distance GrewAbove the vacant lot streetlights arranged. The night in floating parallelograms;Light licked along the wires, our voices. Greeted there and quarreled horizontally Between embarrassed poles, beyond the lights'Dominion. Beside a lake, above a hill,Ravens wrapped their claws around our costly. Quarreling and never knew what distance. Grew within their tight objective grasp.