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This poem is taken from PN Review 259, Volume 47 Number 5, May - June 2021.

Equitable Nocturne
(with Wallace Stevens)
Daniel Levin Becker
Day creeps down. The moon is creeping up.   163
Day is the children’s friend.   286

He is not here, the old sun,   247
He never felt twice the same about the flecked river,   321

In Hydaspia, by Howzen,   197
In Oklahoma,   45

Go on, high ship, since now, upon the shore,   125
God and all angels sing the world to sleep,   129

These are the voices of the pastors calling   352
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