THE OPENING OF THE NIGHT

by Grant Carrington



This is the opening of the night:

bongos in the Village
ten-wheelers in New Jersey
blondes on Sunset Boulevard
declamations on Broadway
nighthawks in Vermont.

O, for the opening of the night

when I feel the spring winging in winter
where the wild hibernal fluid sluggishly beats--

There is no mystery in the golden flood of day.
There is no danger in the empty rings of sharp-defined shadow.

This is the opening of the night:

guitars in my heart.





Copyright 1960. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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"The Opening of the Night" was first published in Nimrod, Vol. 7 No. 3 (1963), edited by Keith Gildersleeve, published in cooperation with the University of Tulsa.


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