ARLO WILL

Did you ever see an alligator

Come up to the air from the mud,

Staring blindly under the full glare of noon?

Have you seen the stabled horses at night

Tremble and start back at the sight of a lantern?

Have you ever walked in darkness

When an unknown door was open before you

And you stood, it seemed, in the light of a thousand candles

Of delicate wax?