Nightfall – v7

The sun drops below the shoreline, the forest beyond;
Summer sky aglow, mirrored skin of the water
Ablaze in oranges, yellows, and shades of black.
 
Nightfall comes to the quiet, still, lake.
 
With effort I pull and push my canoe away from shore,
Longing for home, longing for warmth.
 
Waves swelled and fell, the canoe pitched and bobbed.
The paddle blade births luminous eddies by my side.
 
Great blue heron, regal, majestic,
Perches on a skeleton of an ancient pine,
Silhouetted before an Oriole sky.
 
Crossing the silken waters, no roadway, no map,
Colored lights on a deck, Elvis on the stereo.
 
Easy laughter rises from an invisible porch,
Dark houses, silent waters, failing light, all in shadows.
 
A beaver before me, swimming out in the lit waters.
He slaps his tail and dives, shallow near shore.
We cross again, again, repeating this dance.
 
A light flickers in my window, dimly through the screens,
The open porch calls me, my cabin in the lake, guides me home.
 
Night all around me, the world is still.
 
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Edited February 7, 2023

Nightfall – v7

 

edited March 21, 2021

Nightfall - v6

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/03/nightfall-v6.html

edited September 28, 2017

Nightfall – v5

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2017/09/nightfall-v5.html

Edited July 18, 2013

“Nightfall – v4”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/07/nightfall-v4.html

Edited July 15, 2013

“Nightfall – v3”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/07/nightfall-v3.html

Edited July 15, 2013

“Nightfall – v2”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/07/nightfall-v2.html

July 20, 2000

“Nightfall”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/02/nightfall.html

Written Thursday 7/20/00 at 9:50. It is about my two hour canoe ride

on Swains Lake from 7:15 to 9:20pm.

Barrington, NH

edited December 28, 2015

Alone in the Rain – revised – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/12/alone-in-rain-revised-v2.html

posted February 13, 2004

written August 13, 2000 1:53am

Alone in the Rain – revised

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/02/alone-in-rain.html 

Written 6/18/2000

Alone in the Rain

same day as “Dew in the Morning”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/02/dew-in-morning-first-try.html

and

“Ten Feet Overhead”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/02/one-morning-on-swains-lake.html

 

 

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