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The night seems
a small black hand,
a beautiful darkness,
knuckled with the soft shapes
of trees.
In the quiet—
listen—
the sweeping trail
of a tender hand,
and the wheeling tumble
of bats
spilling into our sky
like a child's jacks
onto a starry table.