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Duane
Ackerson
Night
Falling Asleep
Just
before dawn,
night falls asleep in my bed,
a book escaping dozing hands
to tumble
slow motion
toward
the
floor.
This at last is enough
to rouse me from its torpor.
When I pick the book up
try to find a place for myself
in the story,
all the pages have gone pale;
I see the last words on the last page
climbing a fresh
ladder
of
light
out the window
to where the first bird
is opening its hymnal.
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