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The rabbit darkness just beyond the headlights’ sprawl and parcel darkness stopping up the drivers’ mouths like oaths or part-formed words or cloth rags steeped in oil and minor darkness pooled behind the wristwatch glass and double darkness stowed between the mountain pines The shallow darkness in the footwell, lapping at the drivers’ legs, and changeling darkness of hotels that watch the motorway or watch the slopes beyond and gorgon darkness bred in the Carpathians and silty darkness skulking near a lynx or wolf The lack of lamps to staunch the many darknesses The snow poised to soak up the ski towns’ darknesses and leave a foamy light that seems to slowly swell and serous, ferrous, little jealous darknesses all staggered on the strandline where the darkness was