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When daylight shuts her eyes – September 2022

11/10/202209/10/2022

From Many Winters, 1974, by Nancy Wood

When daylight shuts her eyes
And the sky is fast asleep,
The moon comes up with half a face
And the stars put holes in the night.
Categories Poems Tags adversity, life, Many Winters
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