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Anselm Hollo

Anselm Hollo is the author of more than thirty books, most recently...
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		Poems about Night
		A Clear Midnight by Walt Whitman

		Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight by Vachel Lindsay

		Acquainted with the Night by Robert Frost

		At Deep Midnight by Minnie Bruce Pratt

		At Night the States by Alice Notley

		Breaking Across Us Now by Katie Ford

		Flying at Night by Ted Kooser

		Hard Night by Christian Wiman

		Hellish Night by Arthur Rimbaud

		Here and Now by Stephen Dunn

		Hymn to the Night by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

		Last by Maxine Scates

		Late Night Ode by J. D. McClatchy

		Let Evening Come by Jane Kenyon

		Meeting at Night by Robert Browning

		Mother Night by James Weldon Johnson

		Night by Carsten René Nielsen

		Night Air by C. Dale Young

		Night Blooming Jasmine by Giovanni Pascoli

		Night Drafts by Tony Sanders

		Night Funeral in Harlem by Langston Hughes

		Night Songs by Thomas Kinsella

		Nights On The Peninsula by D. Nurkse

		On a Night Like This by Michael Teig

		One Night by Mathias Svalina

		Rhapsody on a Windy Night by T. S. Eliot

		Sawdust by Sharon Bryan

		Ships That Pass in the Night by Paul Laurence Dunbar

		Summer Night, Riverside by Sara Teasdale

		Summer Stars by Carl Sandburg

		The First Night by Billy Collins

		The Sun Has Long Been Set by William Wordsworth

		To Night by Percy Bysshe Shelley

		Unity by Pablo Neruda

		Window by Carl Sandburg

La Noche
by Anselm Hollo

the wind let loose in the dark and the lights of the city moving the city is a great dragon it is a procession it is on the move but the curtains are drawn the music unheard see men and women preparing themselves for the long journey across a room

"La Noche" is reprinted by permission from Notes on the Possibilities and Attractions of Existence (Coffee House Press, 2001). Copyright © 2001 by Anselm Hollo.