Self-Imposed.
Night has now arrived from distant places
with uncivilized black covered in silence.
Fox interrupts in shrieks of impatience
as tiny vole\'s craft outpaces his guile.
Mis-timed a gull cackles to make hairs
on my hand shake as wing-beat stops.
An owl hoots and hunger-eyed stares
in the window to victimize me by shock
Fearful this panic of spluttering candle
light-less I pan to catch fanciful shapes.
Day succumbs and chamber left lampless
I must battle \'gainst self-imposed wraithes.