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Dark, dark--we can't make the room dark enough
to deceive her small and unsleeping self.
She sings like bottled silver in the dark,
and silence only proves she is not light-safe,
unseen, onrushing, glancing herself awake.
He comes to fix the darkness he has made,
our slim Israeli handyman named Gad.
A crocus light leaks round him at the equinox,
until the floor is freaked purple and gold.
The bold sun climbs past Doctor Shade. Light speaks;
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