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Night
The fields glow orange in sunset.
Then night. Soybeans are not interested
in a half-smiling moon but will listen
to the sweet evensong of birds.
Dawn
Along the stonewall ivy,
last evening’s rain
mixes with dew point,
drips from a spider’s web.
Richard Luftig is a professor of educational psychology and special education
at Miami University in Ohio. He is a recipient of the Cincinnati Post-Corbett Foundation Award for
Literature and a semi finalist for the Emily Dickinson Society Award. His poems have appeared in
numerous literary journals in the United States and internationally in Japan, Canada, Australia,
Finland, Bulgaria and England. His third chapbook of poems was published in 2007.
Email: Richard Luftig
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