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12:20am December 19, 2014
[Silhouette of me and my cat Fey in a hospital bed with the back tilted nearly upright, backlit by the yellow-orange glow of the nightlight behind us. You can’t see much within the black silhouettes, but you can see the walls behind us, with faintly visible decals of scenes from the redwoods. At the top is a quote from one of my poems: “Here in the shadows where everything blends, the darkness and I are the closest of friends.”] (*) Here is the full poem on my main poetry blog, in case you want to leave comments on the poem in a more traditional blog style, or make use of other Wordpress features. For everyone else, here is the full poem: Wings of Midnight Velvet The darkness enfolds me in black velvet wings She holds me close and she holds me tight She whispers to me of unspeakable things Only understood in the darkest of night Like a lone hermit thrush, she hauntingly sings You are safe here with me until morning’s light Here in the shadows where everything blends The darkness and me are the closest of friends _______________________________ (*) Please don’t remove that image description, it helps blind and visually impaired people, including people with visual processing issues (which means many autistic and dyslexic people, as well as people with Nonverbal Learning Disability), understand what’s going on in the picture. I’m only sometimes able to write these because of my own visual and language issues, so it’s infuriating to go through all that work for the sake of accessibility, only to have it disappear on the first reblog.

[Silhouette of me and my cat Fey in a hospital bed with the back tilted nearly upright, backlit by the yellow-orange glow of the nightlight behind us. You can’t see much within the black silhouettes, but you can see the walls behind us, with faintly visible decals of scenes from the redwoods. At the top is a quote from one of my poems: “Here in the shadows where everything blends, the darkness and I are the closest of friends.”] (*)

Here is the full poem on my main poetry blog, in case you want to leave comments on the poem in a more traditional blog style, or make use of other Wordpress features.

For everyone else, here is the full poem:

Wings of Midnight Velvet

The darkness enfolds me in black velvet wings
She holds me close and she holds me tight
She whispers to me of unspeakable things
Only understood in the darkest of night
Like a lone hermit thrush, she hauntingly sings
You are safe here with me until morning’s light
Here in the shadows where everything blends
The darkness and me are the closest of friends

_______________________________

(*) Please don’t remove that image description, it helps blind and visually impaired people, including people with visual processing issues (which means many autistic and dyslexic people, as well as people with Nonverbal Learning Disability), understand what’s going on in the picture. I’m only sometimes able to write these because of my own visual and language issues, so it’s infuriating to go through all that work for the sake of accessibility, only to have it disappear on the first reblog.

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