Like Kildeers Crying

Jessica Powers

Tonight I lost my heart's whole sense of you-
I could not find you any way I turned.
Even your swift impetuous words, that burned
Into my mind, were cold and palely blue
With the small death that any frail words meet
Within a moment too profound for them.
The dusk was velvet, bending on a stem
Like a crushed flower soft and April-sweet.
When suddenly, out where half-lights edge grey air,
A kildeer lifted from a glassy pond,
Seeking the shadows of the field beyond,
Flying and crying with a wild despair.
1 lost you then. My thoughts like kildeers flew
Over a bright pond where day was dying;
The dusk held nothing save their lonely crying,
And nothing mattered-neither love nor you.