She the Night

[Leanne]

Incredibly helpful, Todd, thanks so much! I originally wrote this for a poet friend, whose phrases I could never emulate (but then, she couldn't manage mine either, vive la difference!), so the personification is a bit convoluted, the night as a metaphor for a person, then personified itself... ah hell, I've confused myself. Anyway, the original motivation for the poem doesn't really matter, because your reading makes so much sense I'm actually a lot more impressed with my cleverness than I was before Unusually enough, I do quite like this poem -- I generally hate everything I write after looking at it for more than an hour or so.