Spring 2010 | Volume 4 | Issue 1

Graham Hillard

At Sunset

Let us reattach for a moment
this world to mystery—

the sky’s strange syntax,
clouds like quartz or bones crushed

and soaked and packed, the shadow-
swathe of the sun’s falling, dusty

fields of orange and gray made infinite
by the limits of sight, thank God—

Let us grant its refusal
to be governed.