What Can I Write About the Night
A poem
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2 min readFeb 27, 2023
What can I write about the night that has not been written a million times? Its velvety blackness, the winking stars and planets, the moon in its phases, and the faint glow of kitchen lights at my back can all be taken for granted.
I stand at the pasture gate, leaning on it a little, glad to hear the owls. I thought they had gone away when our neighbor to the north razed…
