Of things outside the body
And not know what body is
For a long time, until things
Outside the body tell it,
And the body goes, A-ha!
That must be it, what I am.
A body with the habit
Of waking at three a.m.
Might not think too much of it,
Might have gotten used to it,
A weird habit, good for stars,
If you live in the desert,
Far from a city at least.
Then the body reads that hour
Has a nickname in Danish,
Ultvetimen, the wolf hour,
The hour when the veil is thin—
And presumably the hour
When the wolves might be troubling,
Once, when wolves still roamed the land,
Which feels right to the body,
Feels like a recognition
Of oneself as tuned to wolves
Or to the spookiest hour,
The true middle of the night,
When midnight revels are done.
Body comes into its own,
Gives its behaviors meaning,
Body of ultvetimen—
Why would a body wake up
At just this strange hour, if not
Destined to do things in it?
However ridiculous
The thought, body clings to it,
Information from outside
Telling body what it is,
Given no body wholly
Body would want any clue.
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