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NIGHTWATCH

by Jose Mari Gotera


midnight hunting
the starry ceiling
for wounds


 
skin alters
not in the same way
things fall
 

the light of a star
with blood
seething
 
in one
blurred
tear
 
an eye
spawned
under the moon
 
prowls the sky
 
of either side
dying