ENGRAVED
A man and woman
Sit by the riverbank.
He fishes,
she reads.
The fish are not biting.
She has not turned the page
for an hour.
The light around them
holds itself taut,
no shadow moves,
but the sky and the woods,
look, are dark.
Night has advanced upon them.
Denise Levertov
Poems 1972 – 1982
New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2001
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