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The darkness flows around the houses
like soft cream
enveloping mashedpotatoes,
Its current sweeping kids inside.
Heavy, cool, it bathes thehot
scarlet bricks,
Dries them with a velvet towel,
and dressesthem
in silk pajamas.
The parents,
kids
Sit down to dinnerand
the houses throw out amber beams,
From bright orifices -
Windows,from under doors,
The tide of ebony,
Retreats like oil from water,
Buthangs suspended
Beyond light's pale grasp.
Suddenly
The streetlightsflicker on,
And the darkness flees
Whimpering
From a neighborhoodilluminated.



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