Bats’ Ultrasound

Sleeping-bagged in a duplex wing

with fleas, in rock-cleft or building

radar bats are darkness in miniature,

their whole face one tufty crinkled ear

with weak eyes, fine teeth bared to sing.

Few are vampires. None flit through the mirror.

Where they flutter at evening’s a queer

tonal hunting zone above highest C.

Insect prey at the peak of our hearing

drone re to their detailing tee:

ah, eyrie-ire, aero hour, eh?

O’er our ur-area (our era aye

ere your raw row) we air our array,

err, yaw, row wry—aura our orrery,

our eerie ü our ray, our arrow.

A rare ear, our aery Yahweh.