Okies Roasting a Rabbit over a Campfire

the  evening   bats

flashed into the fire-light

and out again

-- John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath (1939)

Bits / about / Bats

The  bat     flit-

ted   a      bout

in the   uncert-
ain       light,

and the frog    croaked

from the fish-pond.

-- Washington Irving ,“The Legend of the Two Discreet Statues”, in The Alhambra (1832)

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the twi-light-loving                         bats

began  to flit-about

-- Washington Irving ,“The Legend of the Enchanted Soldier”, in The Alhambra (1832)

PS:  Bats Are Our Friends:
https://laughingsquid.com/bat-makes-noises-when-head-scratched/

Ruined-Tower tableau

The spider spun her web

athwart the ruined vault

and bats and owls  nestled in those chambers

-- Washington Irving ,“The Legend of the Two Discreet Statues”, in The Alhambra (1832)

R. Krebs monostich: Bats at night

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~   their flitting forms    defied the eye   ~

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[Quarried from this source: 

Jan Valtin, Bend in the River (1942), p. 239 ]