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James Richardson
James Richardson is a former senior writer for The Sacramento Bee who has covered Willie Brown and the California Legislature for the past decade. Currently he is Adjunct Professor at the Graduate School of Journalism, University of California, Berkeley.
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During - James Richardson
A Few Thoughts in the Dark
Again
Is Memory,
as they pretend,
mother of the Muse?—
or Forgetting,
who says My friend,
I know
you’ve told me before
about love, death,
solitude—and what
were those other things?—but
tell me again.
One of the Evenings
After so many years, we know them.
This is one of the older Evenings: its patience,
settling in, its warmth that needs nothing in return.
So many Augusts sitting out through sunset,
first a dimness in the undergrowth like smoke,
and then like someone you hadn’t noticed
has been watching a long time…
It has seen everything that can be done in the dark.
It has seen two rifles swing around
to train on each other, it has seen lovers meet and revolve,
it has seen the wounds grayscale in low light.
It has come equally for those who prayed for it
and those who switched on lamp after lamp
until they could not see. It deals evenhandedly
with the one skimming the stairs as rapidly as typing,
the one washing plates a little too loudly,
the one who thinks there is something more important,
since it does not believe in protagonists,
since it knows anyone could be anyone else.
It has heard what they said aloud to the moon, to the