Reading A Sundial By Moonlight Poem by Sally Evans

Timeless forest
under the midnight wall -

owls haunt dusk
and a deer's track leads to dawn -

sundial in moonlight, stronger
than wet shine from the road -

silent, before the roar
of a midnight timberload -

bats and swallows halted
under bridges -

disc lit dial
with a creeping shadow -

wandering mockery
of day's discernible hours -

the sky sleepwalker
showering white -

reading a sundial
by moonlight

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