Poems

On a Hill at Night in a Chair Under Stars

By Timothy Liu

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.