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Teacher’s Insomnia By Martha F. Fox Too tired for sleep, close to dawn I analyze dark’s ambient sounds long u of the wind, passing cars' soft g sustained, short a of my child's dream-mumble, and the cat's diphthong at the sibilant window she, like me, a student of night's language, crying to be let out. |
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