Showing posts with label The Hour Before Dawn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Hour Before Dawn. Show all posts

Saturday, November 10, 2012

WHITE ROOM






These be
Three silent things:
The falling snow . . the hour
Before the dawn . . the mouth of one
Just dead.


Just now,
Out of the strange
Still dusk . . as strange, as still . .
A white moth flew. Why am I grown
So cold?







a. Text:  Adelaide Crapsey, Triad (first) and The Warning (second), 1911-13

b. The Hour Before Dawn: Andy Mackay (Link)

c. Illustrations:  Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Four-Poster Bed and Washstand from The White Bedroom at Hous 'Hill, Glasgow (1904)