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Poetry: Long nights

by Christa Martin

Created on: January 30, 2011

Nighthouse


Amidst the chaos factory rumble

of portable airconditioner;


Through the shrilly clinking bells which hang

from cats' collars;


In the mad scrabble of many claws for purchase

on abused wooden floors;


Under the shrieking sirens racing

to keep the peace in the streets;


 Around the clattering trundle

of feet up stairs;


Two people fall endlessly

into a few

minutes

of sleep

at a time. 

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