In Late Light

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There is a clearing by a certain stonewhere images flow and are worth stopping for. I have stayed there almost all day in silenceuntil night remembered what belonged to it and its shadows started to take back its own.I’ve found it hard to walk away as starlight infused daisies and the stone itself beganto feel like a star so, although what I have done with my life may not be much, for a whileit seemed to be in line. The poems of In Late Light situate objects and experiences (both large and small, concrete and abstract) within Brian Swann’s perspective of the natural world. Sixty-two poems presented in four sections explore his life—from early days to the present—evoking friends and family on two continents. His sharp, bright imagery affirms the unique beauty of our world and explores its invisible mysteries. Contents I: Temenos Worlds In Line Rocks This Place Transubstantiation Temenos The Garden As If Click Song For an Anonymous Thrush A Typology of Birds II: Opening the Dark Hathor Moonlight Peel Land of Flint Correspondences Opening the Dark Pity Me Old Men Lily Mangoes Moth Repayment Ghost Image The Amazon The Knife The Obsidian Mirror Beyond The Drowned Boy Night Sky with Figures The Stranger III: Ghost Dance Grandfather Clock The Pit Rag and Bone Time Saver Floating Light The Lake Identity The Waves Ghost Dance Strange Flowers Longinus on the Bowery Loneliness Tropical Fish Firmament Over the Moon IV: Making It Out The Rill The Gods The Whistler and His Dog The Feather Making It Back Making It Out Strangeness The Horses The Cricket The Sky How I Understand Eternity Tableau Magdalenian Masks Cetus Acknowledgments