In silent nights with ill-lit ceilings
and heavy air,
we move through neighborhoods
smiling at night cats and children at windows
or under blankets with flashlights,
sharing walls with their mothers
whose pearls are in boxes
on dressers and bureaus.
The heat moves down streets
and through windows and door frames,
sliding blankets off mothers
and fathers and children,
but those at the windows are
watching us plunder
their streets for our penance,
we children at windows
with mothers and lovers.
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