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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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