A Step in the Dark: Poems

A Step In The Dark is Stephen Behrendt's second volume of poetry. In the poem called "Alone in London" he writes: "Love alone across the Atlantic is harder, /but love no less if anything it's more/Everything reminds, all that we should see together: the geese at Kew, / the heron in the tree, squawking as it springs, /the horses in Hyde Park, the umbrellas/at Brighton, flapping tn cool breeze / At night I read till after midnight, /the breeze filling my small room/ through the sheers, switch off my light, / turn to the wall in my narrow bed, /and sleep a deep and dreamless sleep/ until the morning light reminds me/how I am still alone, and Incomplete". Hilda Raz writes that Behrendt's poetry is "Passionate and witty... recollected in tranquillity, presented with the small measure of detachment that Wordsworth recommends.