Two Cinquains

by

Adelaide Crapsey (American, 1878-1914)

November Night

Listen. .

With faint dry sound,

Like steps of passing ghosts,

The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break from the trees

And fall.

Niagara

Seen on a Night in November

How frail

Above the bulk

Of crashing water hangs,

Autumn, evanescent, wan,

The moon.