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Margaret Walther
The Ink of Evening
is   different   from   the   ink   of   day.    no   coluratura   trills,   thrills.    no
sun-lacquered lake.
 
let   the   horizon   blur.    turn   come   into   calm.    enter   the   space   just
before or after a note of music.
 
close   your   eyes,   scoop   evening   into   yourself.    sit   against   a   tree.    let
its windows go dim.
 
find   the   tree   inside   the   tree.    echoes   of   birdsong   coming   from
within. let leaves grisaille into grail.
 
cricket   black.    dip   yourself   into   the   vat   of   evening.    hang   up   the
negatives to dry.
 
let   austerity   wash   over   your   mind.    as   the   tide   goes   out,   it   will   take
what it wants. make a poem in the holes.
Margaret Walther is a retired librarian from the Denver metro area and a past president of Columbine Poets, an organization to promote poetry in Colorado. She has been a guest editor for Buffalo Bones, and has poems published or forthcoming in many journals, including Connecticut Review, anderbo.com, Quarterly West, Naugatuck River Review, Fugue, The Anemone Sidecar, Chickenpinata, and Nimrod. She won the Many Mountains Moving 2009 Poetry Contest. Two of her poems published in the online journal In Posse Review in 2010 were selected by Web del Sol for its e-SCENE best of the Literary Journals.

As for her favorite sweet, Margaret adds, "I love anything chocolate! Coldstone Creamery makes the best chocolate ice cream. Mix it with almonds—divine!"