…out the details of the day

The afternoon is fading
and a quiet softness seeps across the sky
clouds are slowly drifting
falling silently into rivers
and flowing softly over stones
the shadows are lengthening
painting out the details of the day
soon to render everything into silhouette
dark phantoms are slowly floating
touched with bright haloes
that do not reveal their faces
huddled together in a dark forest
that is growing even as you watch
completely filling up the space
as the night rolls gently in
deep into the horizon
the light is draining away
like the blood of the day
pooling darkly in the shallows
© Ann Bagnall