In The Night Garden
by Jane Yolen

Night lilies bloom,
Leaves red as blood.
Frogs without legs
Are astir in the mud.
Foxes with eyes that are
White as blind moons.
Katy-don’ts creaking out
Raw fiddle tunes.
Possums play dead
Till they really do rot.
And I am out searching
For what I know not.;
For what I know not,
And for what I most fear,
Afraid what’s behind me,
Afraid what is near.

List of Poems

• Garden of the Night
• In The Night Garden
• Pause
• Green Moon Garden
• Wait, What?
• Evening Prayer
• Time to Go
• Faded World
• Night Garden
• Night Cloud Dreaming
• Tinkerbell and the Butterfly Bush (for Audrey)
• The garden is not haunted
• darkness finally
• Once, the night
• Untitled
• it’s more beautiful
• The Night Garden Party
• Are you not afraid?
• Scent
• Vampiric Kitty