Night Song by Lauren Scharhag

Night Song

 

I am drawn

to darkness and stars,

to midnights and mood indigos,

to the hour of batwings

and unseen howlers.

It’s hard to tell, in the dark,

what is menacing and what

is mournful.


Lauren Scharhag is an award-winning writer of fiction and poetry.She is the author ofUnder Julia, The Ice Dragon, The Winter Prince, West Side Girl & Other Poems, and the co-author of The Order of the Four Sons series. Her poems and short stories have appeared in over eighty journals and anthologies, including Into the Void, The American Journal of Poetry, Gambling the Aisle and Glass: A Journal of Poetry. She lives in Kansas City, MO. To learn more about her work, 

visit: www.laurenscharhag.blogspot.com

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