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The Fall Through

 

Night is full of animals

they’re always there

you see how ground is woken

by morning all the leaves

live and die alongside those trails

and light ways, it can be noisy

as well as cars, trains, planes

and some distant event.

 

All this travels the ground

unless something climbs.

Presumably there’s death

and violence, even if the sound

doesn’t carry. Presumably.

 

Though you know nothing

even when trains are still

going west to the coast

and sky roars with its metal

besides accident and need.

What happens is what is done.

 

By morning a feather, a scrap of fur

a shallow hole, something to fall through

letting go of attachments.