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and in the nights they whispered
laying close in the frost and the dark,
pressing into one another to feel the beating heart
of another person, someone outside themselves
as proof, living proof
they were not the last one, they were not the very last one
because when dark is everywhere and all our confidences are forgotten
and man is only a child again, without stick or blade or bludgeon
and the world is as it once was, wholly a place of the animals
where all churches are built to honor the tooth-and-claw
and all of human intelligence is worth exactly nothing
a place of pounding hearts and running and crashing through
fallen tree-limbs
an unknowable chaos of wilderness
where beasts chant out into the frozen night-times
"who will kill, and who will eat, and who will die"

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