The Tenuous Night of the Universe Recorded

The real animals know the time
as night falls into the right places.
The bats swoop, visionaries
to the universe outside the damp caves
they cling to in the daylight hours
where they seek the solace of the blind.
Wet lizards mimick the perpetual hymn
of the stars in the charm
of the dog's pleasant serenades at dusk.

This is the sound of the worlds'
random spins shining one upon the other.
Who knows how many days there make eons!

Long ago, the moon surpassed
the sun, overlapped
the generations of stars and starlight
near the prowl of the night kin
who tell their story so very well.