Gloaming

Gloaming 

See the glade at the edge of our 

playing field, the passage there 

into the green mist. May be balls 

lost in the tall grass a hurler hit.

As anticipation of sight lost, smells 

gone, taste gone, gloaming hides 

kettles, knife, lightning, or lava. 

     To know it when they see it. 

[surrealist] 

The Gloom 

See a glade at the edge

of the playing field:

     a passage there

into the green mist

through the tall grass

where baseballs a letterer

hit may be lost, sight lost,

smells gone, taste gone:

     gloom hides detail:

knife, lightning, lava.

[first version]