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Sunday, October 5th, 2008
“Watching the Bat” by Jeff Friedman
Jeff Friedman
WATCHING THE BAT
It is the last bat hanging
from the rafters that scares me. Why hasn’t
he disappeared like the others
in a spume of smoke and dusk?
Too sick? Too young? Too much of a
loner? I stare at him from my ladder
into the crawl space of the attic,
my flashlight aimed just
below his back. He looks
like a small [...]
