Robert H. F. Carver: ‘School of Night’, and ‘Babylon’School of NightLate as you can, go out to the far paddockand taste the dark. To begin with, keep one eyefixed on the house: use it as a tether—a light-line while you wean yourself onto night. Soon enough you’ll find you can do without it—playing taxonomist between the shades:the stygian or the merely tenebrous;the blue-black and the inky. In time, you’ll be able to swallow night in gulps:drink all of it in—mouth open, irises wide. Robert H. F. CarverBabylonSomething is wrong with the clocks.