Awake at night

Poems and stories about being awake at night.

Street Lamps, 1950.

Look out and see the moonybirds That light the grey South Quay. Cold on the pale linoleum, On padding feet go we, On gloomy stairs, through fusty rooms Which ghosts and shadows fill -

Insomnia

In the hot rooms folks are sleeping, sleeping. I grasp my book, pour a glass of red wine. Down creaking stairs I go creeping, creeping To the front room, the lounge not mine.