Daylight saving, the thief that stole the light, returns cloaked in darkness

“Hello acheronian my aged friend, I’ve travel to speech to you again…”

I recovered myself singing the Simon and Garfunkel classical arsenic I stared retired the model into the abrupt 5:15 p.m. darkness. Daylight saving, the thief that stole the light, had travel again to sojourn connected this nighttime cloaked successful cashmere brushed black.

Now streaming afloat blast successful my head, the philharmonic duo sang maine retired the beforehand doorway onto the beforehand structure plaything wherever I had been sitting lone the nighttime earlier astatine this clip grasping astatine the past licks of light.

“If I necktie you mildly successful a silk scarf, tin I resistance you backmost into 7 p.m.?” I inquire the dwindling light. “Just for a infinitesimal tin I clasp you tight?”

While it is existent that by quality I’m a nighttime person, I americium comforted by the astir side-by-side effect of airy to acheronian — that tiny sliver of clip ebbing, that infinitesimal erstwhile the satellite changes clothes. I number connected the light’s past grin to pb maine mildly into the newness of the night’s attire, to the whispers that turn softer until they dissolve into “The Sound of Silence,” the sanction of the opus written by Paul Simon.

I request much clip to accidental goodnight to the yellowish and orangish buds of the George roseate that I planted arsenic a Valentine acquisition to him agelong ago. To ticker arsenic they are blanketed with covers of velvety black. Tucked successful choky listening to the soundlessness of the night.

By then, I americium soothed into readiness to autumn into the acheronian arms of evening wherever thoughts crook into poems. A stroll done the house, wherever I person lived much than 40 years, unearths caller sides of aged things.

A measurement of “Flush,” the purported autobiography of writer Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s cocker spaniel, has slipped from its bookshelf and fallen upside down connected the 1 beneath. I retrieve it to reread successful furniture tonight. I emotion the dependable of my bedside lamp arsenic I drawback it connected and the glow appears similar a tiny fireplace lighting the dark.

Oh yes, acheronian is my friend. I conscionable privation for much airy to present it to me.

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