fluidly:

benefits of day

• dying light

— benefits of night

• the shadows crane their fingers to catch weary slipping feet and
•  there bleed stories in the walls (and
• ) the sleepiness is drink when the labels say you can’t and)
• footsteps sound like thunder    breathing sounds like planes and
• because of this our mortal bodies learn      our bodies learn      our gaits and heartbeats learn (to sate the weight of silence)