Fear of a Dark Room

When the room is dark
There is more room in it
When the room is dark
I find more space more kindness
For the leaves falling the glasses falling
The lilacs breathing across the room
There is more grammar no less
I don't have to decide in the darkness
The artificial legs are friendly
Think night crabs crossing wide highways in Japan
There must be massive destruction
Coming up out of the sea
When the room is dark
You don't know how many bodies
Share the space with you
This sculptural space of flowers
They enfold darkness to become
Or the crabs climbing these flowing trees
In the darkness of the room of night
The ones the Japanese cars didn't run over
The night is only a room
Attached to a much bigger room
They are going from room to room
They go from dark to dark
That is what the crabs do
The room is growing larger
But it cannot let you know this