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INVOCATION This August night, raccoons, come to the back door burnished all summer by salty, human touch: enter secretly & eat. Listen, little mask-faced ones, unstealthy bandits whose tails are barred with dusk: listen, gliding green-eyed ones: I concede you gladly all this much-handled stuff, garbage, grain, the cropped food and cropped heart— may you gnaw in contentment through the sleep-hours on everything left out. May you find the house hospitable, well-used, stocked with sufficient goods. I'll settle with your leavings, as you have settled for mine, before startling back into darkness that marks each of us so differently. 4 ...

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