Current Issue About Editorial Note Archives Submitting Links		Poems by Andrew Nightingale   Parted Try this word: green. Do you know where you are? Try this one: clouds. Do you know? Then how about: swallows. Surely you know now? Try church bells. Does that help? Try autumn or sunlight or long shadows: where are you? Where are you?   Analogy The analogy came first. When you stare straight at a dim star it vanishes. Then you see it when you look away. It was an analogy waiting to happen. I left it waiting ten years. Then it happened. What I want to say can only be said by avoiding the subject.   Next Poem
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