As
Night Falls
by Anthony Bernstein © 2006
As night falls the air holds new secrets
As night falls comes a choir of whispers
As night falls hands flick switches
As night falls voices call
Silhouettes lean towards the waning light
Shadowed faces slip out of sight
Sleepwalkers dance with grace
Vampires rise to the darks embrace
As night falls he peeps into windows
As night falls she pulls down the shades
As night falls heads rest on pillows
As night falls voices call
Time grows short yet shorter still
As moments turn the temporal wheel
The air grows cold and fear takes hold
Love is lost and souls are sold.
Anthony Bernstein was jettisoned from the relative safety of the womb on 3/11/64
in New York City, where he was raised with two older brothers. Anthony presently
resides in the historic East Side of Providence, Rhode Island, where he shares
his home with several house cats.
A B's poem A Fair Harvest appears in Fighting Chance Magazine, a SF/horror
journal, in the fall/winter ‘04 issue. His poem Abel's Offering appears
in Poesy, a CA poetry publication, in the fall ‘04 issue. His poem Her
Hate appears in the 2005 Providence Spoken Word Series Anthology. His poem
Hungry Night is scheduled for publication this winter in Outer Darkness, issue
thirty-four. His poems Man in a Maze and Reality Ripples are scheduled for
publication this spring and summer in Tales of the Talisman, Vol. 1, issue
four, and Vol. 2, issue one, respectively. His poem Plutonium Logic and a
haiku are scheduled for publication in an upcoming issue of Handshake, a SF
news/poetry journal out of the UK.
A B. has recently released his first book of poems and short stories titled
Strange Appendages. His next book, Reality Ripples, is arriving presently
to the planet. Anthony also has a website featuring many of his surreal stories
and poems: www.anthonybernstein.net
In addition to prose, A B. is also a skilled song writer/musician; he has
played in several bands. College and pirate radio stations throughout the
US and beyond have aired Anthony's songs. Some of A B's intense music will
be added to his website soon.