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The windy night
(a poem for two voices)
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'Who's that
tap-tapping
at my window?
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'It is I, the flax,
you hear
a-tapping.
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'Are those claws
I hear –
or bony paws?
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'Just branches,
child,
twigs and leaves.
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'And that sigh –
so like a moan
and cold as dawn.
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'It is the wind's voice
calling
to the moon.
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'Who licks
its teeth, one by one,
with a red, red tongue?
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'Why, Grandma's
moonlight cat
does that.
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'Whose eyes so bright
chip diamonds
from the night?
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'The stars
that's all, my child,
and Grandma's cat.
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'Who's there?'
I whisper.
'Who's there?'
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'We are here,
so sleep now,
sleep.'
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Written by Vivienne Joseph