A contemporary poem about bats over the red wall, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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At midnight, the wall begins its singing. Bats lift from her hair like black punctuation. She does not pray; she edits the dark with the exact tilt of her throat. A red line travels down her cheek. The door opens by itself. Night enters, but it does not win.
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