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Day Into Night

Darkness comes out of the ground

and climbs inside the trunks of trees.

It seeps along the branches and the boughs

into each twig and leaf, each bud and flower.

Slowly, imperceptible as time it spreads

a black ink, double dye clouding pure water.

The chill darkness leaks into the evening air

that soaks it up like litmus, blotting paper

until it steals all colours from the sky,

and only crystals of dried-up day remain, like stars.

By

James Kirkup