120 Voices woke me in the dark

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Voices woke me in the dark: wall,

window, patina of the streetlight.

And again, below, the woman, call-

ing, drunk and wanton at midnight.

 

And something answered her and crept

out of the cavern where I slept,

dropped like a serpent to the earth,

coiled and carnal for her mirth.