Categories: Pyramid Poetry

When the Night Stillness

By: Susan C. Hudgens

San Jose, CA 11-2-93

Susan C. Hudgens, San Jose, CA

When the night stillness
and I
match star for star

The azure hued
eye of night
opens

Dreams disappear
and freedom being
has its way

A momentary
soft and whispered glimpse
of brilliance

Then the black surround
retracts the view
hush-fullness remains

– Susan C. Hudgens
San Jose, CA 11-2-93

Originally appeared in: December 1993