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'To the End of the Night' is one of three winners of the Northwoods Press 2003 annual poetry competition. The poems trace the poet's journey from England to America, and a parallel journey through the heart to a place of renewed vision and synthesis of understanding. Edited by Jay Ramsay. Published by Northwoods Press, Maine.
Endorsements: 'A political, poetic, and philosophic descendant of Blake, she names the nature and architecture of places where violence rhymes with benevolence. Here in these poems, at the end of the night, “thought [is] overtaken / by sensation” and we must greet the day willing to be “taken hostage / by uncertainty.” '
Alice B Fogel author of 'Be That Empty' recipient of the NEA Individual Artists Fellowship.
'Diana Durham's deep clear eye for feeling truth intuits a level of spiritual reality through the fabric of her poetry that just gets better and better as time goes on.'
Jay Ramsay, author of 'Kingdom of the Edge', founder Chrysalis Project UK
PRICE INCLUDES SHIPPING & PROCESSING FEES
'To the End of the Night' is one of three winners of the Northwoods Press 2003 annual poetry competition. The poems trace the poet's journey from England to America, and a parallel journey through the heart to a place of renewed vision and synthesis of understanding. Edited by Jay Ramsay. Published by Northwoods Press, Maine.
Endorsements: 'A political, poetic, and philosophic descendant of Blake, she names the nature and architecture of places where violence rhymes with benevolence. Here in these poems, at the end of the night, “thought [is] overtaken / by sensation” and we must greet the day willing to be “taken hostage / by uncertainty.” '
Alice B Fogel author of 'Be That Empty' recipient of the NEA Individual Artists Fellowship.
'Diana Durham's deep clear eye for feeling truth intuits a level of spiritual reality through the fabric of her poetry that just gets better and better as time goes on.'
Jay Ramsay, author of 'Kingdom of the Edge', founder Chrysalis Project UK
FATHER OF NIGHT
A presence is flowing towards me
out of the dark tonight
plentiful, endlessly
as endless as the road
that sweeps up to us
feeds itself
endlessly endlessly
under the car
this road is not beautiful
but it could also be
a way this radiance
pours itself out
into the night
the purple grey shades
of steel girdered bridges
neon-lit, white-lit
the giant bones
of overpasses
passing and repeating
sometimes the road
is faintly star-lit.
The black pours towards us
seamlessly
in branches and wide grey
stretches of flat river
the dark-rayed continuous
outpouring of its giant
movement steady
into the evening
that we are moving in now.
Simply like water
like black air
or the soft trajectories
of night rain
blown horizontal by the wind
or our rushing against
its silent wet softness
the presence of what we always dreamed
or never noticed
all the ways that we were always held
in this embrace.
A presence is flowing towards me
out of the dark tonight
plentiful, endlessly
as endless as the road
that sweeps up to us
feeds itself
endlessly endlessly
under the car
this road is not beautiful
but it could also be
a way this radiance
pours itself out
into the night
the purple grey shades
of steel girdered bridges
neon-lit, white-lit
the giant bones
of overpasses
passing and repeating
sometimes the road
is faintly star-lit.
The black pours towards us
seamlessly
in branches and wide grey
stretches of flat river
the dark-rayed continuous
outpouring of its giant
movement steady
into the evening
that we are moving in now.
Simply like water
like black air
or the soft trajectories
of night rain
blown horizontal by the wind
or our rushing against
its silent wet softness
the presence of what we always dreamed
or never noticed
all the ways that we were always held
in this embrace.