Twilight Dances is a collection of poems which explores the dark side of the human experiment in a serious lyrical fashion.

THE INMATE

White ends to blue at the gate

where the ordeal begins

and plans go dim

under the yawning chest void.

And within,

walls behind walls,

men, in files,

herded monotonously to cages,

glared at, sneered at, terrorized

by the technicians of gloom.

Everywhere barbed wire

encloses the static of despair.

Is this where the world ends?

Yesterday (was it?) I played in a park

beside my girl. There was

a fountain,

children’s laughter.

I don’t remember what happened after,

but it somersaulted me here.

Odd how I didn’t care.

Now it is more clear.

A young lifer told me you do nothing

you become nothing.

Never let them make that stick.

But

I am guilty.

I should suffer

I should have known

I should have…

I read the same words in so many eyes,

men here who, like everyone,

are nearly innocent.

A fatal flaw, a single gesture

and you can’t fix it after.

Then you bake in the oven of incarceration

for…

World, our judges,

keep us here.

We are not like you,

we are inmates.

Excerpt From Twilight Dances

Written By Ron Kozloff

Twilight Dances is a collection of poems which explores the dark side of the human experiment in a serious lyrical fashion. The author allows Thanatos, or the instinct toward a worldly death, color many of the poems. There are a total of 140 poems in rhymed and free verse forms. The style borders on the lyrical and romantic.

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Ron is a native of Montreal where he is an ex-professor of language. He has experimented in journalism, theater, and film. He has had published two novels and a memoir, and a recent book of poems. While appreciating all art forms, his true loves are poetry and comedy. Ron lives happily in pleasant surroundings with his lovely longtime companion.

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