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In an endnote, Bartoletti explains that her lilting lullaby was inspired by a wooden Noah's Ark she played with as a child. She also speculates about the name of Noah's wife's (Naamah, a variant of Naomi, means "sweet" or "pleasant") and describes the ancient Arabic ghazal, in which couplets end in identical words preceded by rhyming ones. Bartoletti shapes this verse form into a gentle litany ("As rain falls over the ark at night, / As w...Log In or Sign Up to Read More