CLOSED EYELIDS

                There is a winged silence precedes sleep,

                That gathers underneath her cloudy wings

                The tiny fluttering peeping scattered things –

                My thoughts – and stills them into slumberings.

                                                                              Florence S. Small

I’ve tried really hard to find out anything about Florence Small, as has Laurel, to no avail.  There was a painter in Victorian England by that name who also published a lovely children’s book, but her middle name is different. So it is a riddle, but one in keeping with the mystery of the images…..