A cold dark keeps arriving, punctually, sooner

Daylight Savings
by Tess Taylor

How strange it is as we verge on November
and the fields go bare, and days grow tighter
to wake and find, as if from thin air

an unexpected gift: An extra hour.
This generosity recalls the summer’s
easy August days, time and desire

to make long love and read the paper,
both. Unanticipated leisure
makes the passing morning lighter.

The sun on empty vines and stubble fields seems cleaner.
Encroaching thoughts of cold seem further off.
Seem - that is to say, these are measured offers:

by afternoon the light’s late illusion falters.
A cold dark keeps arriving, punctually, sooner.

British Summer Time - such that it was - is over.

Sigh.