"The Bats" - Mark Wunderlich

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The Bats By Mark Wunderlich I share my house with a colony of bats. They live in the roof peak, enter through a gap. At dusk they fly out, dip into inverted arcs to catch what flutters or stings, what can only be hunted at night. Sunlight stops their flight, drives them into their hot chamber to rest and nest, troll-faces pinched shut. I hear them scratch. In darkness they chop and hazard through the sky, around blue outlines of pines, pitch up over the old Dutch house we share. They scare some but not me. I see them for what they seem— timid, wee, happy or lucky, pinned to the roof beams, stitched up in their ammonia reek and private as dreams.

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