Dusk, My Monsignor Comments

This poem is a melancholy perception of time passing, but it's not depressed. Melancholy means SWEET SADNESS, because the sadness comes from our awareness of brevity of our time but the sweetness registers the beauty that suffuses all of that time. Dusk itself is the briefest of time spans and yet you point to birds, churches, silences that extend the sweetness of perception. I think even the dour Monsignor wuill be touched by the charm of the scene.