Poems
On a Hill at Night in a Chair Under Stars
A face at the window. Doves
floating down from the eaves.
He drifting off. No stars.
A parliament of owls roosting
in the branches. By morning
there were flowers everywhere.
“On a Hill at Night in a Chair Under Stars” by Timothy Liu from Vox Angelica. Copyright © 1992 by Timothy Liu. Reprinted with the permission of the author. This poem appeared in the Poetry Society of America's Poems on Wheels program.