Blood Plum Dusk

A poem — night’s soft fall

This persistent pleasure, found in night’s soft fall; the delight at her rising eye, the moon — perhaps because I am a child of night, emerging at birth, from one darkness into another

this bite of blood plum, sweet in my mouth infused with cool luminescence of early evening starlight, purpled like the clouds with the indolent dusk, disguising me as another still shadow

amongst the tree-tops, perched like a raven, with night in her beak, surveying the hushed sweep of street, quiet queen of her domain

Melissa Coffey - March 2022

Nyctophilia: (n.) a strong preference for darkness or night.

Melissa Coffey is an Australian writer, poet & editor, who loves to write at night. Her print publications include memoirs and creative non-fiction essays. Her short stories and poetry are published in numerous international and Australian anthologies and lierary journals (sometimes incognito) are often tinged with darkness and explore desire, female sexuality, nature and transformation. She is currently working on a collection of prose poetry.

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