Poems for the Twilight

Poems for the Twilight

Poems for the Twilight is a book of forty poems by Robert E. Watson. They range from grief as in At a Brothers Coffin (which asks, To what new friends and what strange place / And where in the circling, infinite void of space / Has gone that light which made him feel / Life's joy and pain and love's appeal?) to anger as in Point of Order (which asks after the death of a friend and his family in a car accident, Who was it brought about / This obscene transformation / After so many afflictions? / Was it the Universe Man / With his contract in his pocket? Or was it moldering nature, Dragging its corrupted foot and reaching out with decomposing fingers / For the closest throat? With dead eyes It sees no distinction between the cockroach / And the bleating lamb torn by salivating jaws).

Yes, this book is contemplation in a mystic world.