Dark Woods and Other Poems

By Richard Seltzer

Short collection of poems, from over the course of over fifty years. Includes: Dark Woods, Mist that Rises, The Way of the Web, Finnegan Died, Brief Reprieve, The View from Beacon Hill, On the Invasion of Cambodia, Things are War or Less the Same, on hearing Voznesenski, Journey to the West and others.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Seltzer Books
• Release date: Oct 25, 2018
• ISBN: 9781455448203

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DARK WOODS AND OTHER POEMS BY RICHARD SELTZER

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Dark Woods

She said she feared dark woods

like those nearby

yet knew not why;

for dark or light,

the substance is the same,

the beasts are tame;

there's naught to fear but fancy.

And yet the fear held tight

that only light was right,

that even night needed a moon.

She said the tales

that she had heard,

when but a babe,

of monsters lurking

in the dark,

had left a mark

upon her mind

too deep

for reason's rubbing

to erase.

So we let