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Far Within Us #5

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Far Within Us #5 by Vasko Popa

 The nights are running out of darkness

Steel branches grasp
The arms of passers-by

Only anonymour chimneys
Are free to walk the streets
Which slice across our sleeplessness

In the gutters our stars decay

Form: Free verse

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