7 May 2005 | Vol. 5, No. 1
Alaskan Nightfall
There is a lowness to this light,
how the sun barely scrapes
past tree tops,
where noon is dawn
and 2 is dusk
and 3 is when the valley
quiets and darkens for the night.
By 4, birch limbs
with tiny claws form an eerie silhouette
against the blue-gray sky.
About the author:
Currently teaching English and creative writing at a magnet school in Napa, California, Elizabeth Laborde most recently lived in an Alaska native subsistence village on the Kuskokwim River. In the last fifteen years, she traveled up and down the west coast, living in Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. Passionate about writing, she hopes to become a full-time writer some day.
For further reading:
Browse the contents of 42opus Vol. 5, No. 1, where "Alaskan Nightfall" ran on May 7, 2005. List other work with these same labels: poetry.
