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roaming in the gloaming ( gnimaolg eht ni gnimaor )
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rabbits on the pastures hopping as a bean bursting is the blackbird's stuff of in between muffles in the shuffles flutter butterfly moths emerge & circle shepherds scan the sky red above & smiling silver, gold & chrome clouded shrouds of mackerel cows are coming home nightingales in copses hymn the dales & lark hark, the trot of foxes rabid badgers bark whispers in the grasses chatters in the ear green becomes the blackness people disappear burglars are stirring phantoms on the prowl wander in this whirring til the owlets howl gleaming is the evening see the rivers run roaming in the gloaming sinking with the sun spinning on a sixpence after afternoon squinting eyes & skyward rising with the moon ...