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on fire / while Billie Holiday crawls out of a speaker

of an attempt to make sense of some new set of – usually lowered – circumstances

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On A Bat's Wing: Poems About Bats John Milton flawed walls built for theBats have had a bad press. Yet they snaffle bugs by the thousandAnd carefully clean their babies faces. Catriona OReilly, A Lecture upon the Bat Poets through the ages have written about love, loss, war and peace andbats. Emily Dickinson, Edward Lear, D. H. Lawrence and Stevie Smith as well as modern poets Seamus Heaney, Kathleen Jamie, Les Murray and Ted Hughes have found bats to be a source of inspiration and mythology, flitting in and out of human