Dark Glass

Through the Window Darkly

In the midst of night

sun-warmed Adobe walls cool

doors close

against secrets

behind dark glass.

The mud bricks weather

and crumble after decades

of sheltering 

ages gone and to come

light dying in window panes.

Illumination of the moon

banishing the dark of night

shedding light

on blossoms long dead

behind

the dark glass.

J. Binford-Bell

February 2012