That night my mother never slept, but sat all through it in her nursing chair, brooding over I know not what.
That way, after he'd supposedly gone to bed, he could sneak out at night via his bedroom without our parents ever knowing about it.
"My heart knew, as the night knows the coming of dawn."
A few nights of drinking in all the right dives and he knew exactly who to approach.
For years her nights had known dreams of such an ending.
Why, we've been chums ever since that night you saved me from heaven knows what on the Line road.
Well, one dark night my great-grampa woke up suddenly and didn't know why.
"We didn't get all that much sleep that last night on the island, you know."
Spring was coming, but the nights didn't know it yet.
Just one night to know a woman's love, to feel like a man again.