#darkness starts

[mortalpractice]

Darkness Starts

A shadow in the shape of a house slides out of a house and loses its shape on the lawn.

Trees seek each other as the wind within them dies. Darkness starts inside of things

but keeps on going when the things are gone. Barefoot careless in the farthest parts of the yard children become their cries.

—Christian Wiman, via The Poetry Foundation

[gwydionmisha]

Darkness Starts - Christian Wiman

A shadow in the shape of a house slides out of a house and loses its shape on the lawn. Trees seek each other as the wind within them dies. Darkness starts inside of things but keeps on going when the things are gone. Barefoot careless in the farthest parts of the yard children become their cries.