I LIKE THAT NIGHT FOLLOWS DAY (see video below)
by April Halprin Wayland
What if there was never night
if it was always light…and light?
No dark, no yawn, no closing eyes.
No moon or stars in any skies.
No quiet that the nighttime brings.
I’m sort of scared to think those things.
A sky that’s dark as my dog’s nose
it’s just the way things ought to go.
from The Poetry Friday Anthology for Science—Poems for the School Year Integrating Science, Reading, and Language Arts, compiled by Sylvia Vardell and Janet Wong (Pomelo Books, 2014)
Eli’s nose knows…