I Cannot Hit a Tree is a photograph by Guy Ricketts which was uploaded on November 19th, 2012.
Title
I Cannot Hit a Tree
Artist
Guy Ricketts
Medium
Photograph
Description
"We Grow Accustomed to the Dark"
We grow accustomed to the Dark --
When light is put away --
As when the Neighbor holds the Lamp
To witness her Goodbye --
A Moment -- We uncertain step
For newness of the night --
Then -- fit our Vision to the Dark --
And meet the Road -- erect --
And so of larger -- Darkness --
Those Evenings of the Brain --
When not a Moon disclose a sign --
Or Star -- come out -- within --
The Bravest -- grope a little --
And sometimes hit a Tree
Directly in the Forehead --
But as they learn to see --
Either the Darkness alters --
Or something in the sight
Adjusts itself to Midnight --
And Life steps almost straight.
~ Emily Dickinson
Uploaded
November 19th, 2012
