lanternless

Afterward in the lanternless dark, zipped inside my down bag and listening to the tent walls luff in the wind, I watched pronghorns, backlit by sunset, race across the backs of my eyelids until even that light was gone.

Seeing the Familiar For the First Time 2006

Or face the court … face me … and the possibility that you'll spend a cold, lanternless night in the Dead Room yourself.”

The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007