Evening Inspection


The blackened streetlamp's stubborn light
Illuminates invisibly the empty sea,
A something precisely impossible to see.
A something in you, in me.

The evening's clamped, inverted bowl
Pretends the stars are pining down, and stare.
But their burning eyes are otherwhere;
Only you and I are here.

Only you and I are here,
And something stubborn that stares and stares,
That dropped us open into evening's emptiness.
Something neither you, nor I, can guess.