NaPoMo Dickinsonian Oracle and Writing Exercise #9

In honor of National Poetry Month, and for those interested in its NaPoWriMo incarnation, Brightly is proud to bring to you the Dickinsonian Oracle's Oracular Writing Exercise.

Here is the NaPoWriMo DiOrOrWriEx procedure:
(1) Pose a question to the oracle.
(2) Read the oracle's pronouncement and writing commandment.
(3) Write a bit of poetry

The Dickinsonian oracle announces:

A Night - there lay the Days between -
That Day that was Before -
And Day that was Behind - were One -
And now - 'twas Night - was here -

Slow - Night - that must be watched away -
As Grains opon a shore -
Too imperceptible to note -
Till it be Night - no more -
(E. Dickinson, 609)

And the writing commandment:

Use as the first line in a poem "Slow Y that must be X'ed away," substituting for Y a noun either rhyming with "night" or one having to do with darkness. For X, use a verb that was in the question you posed to the oracle. If, by some strange happenstance, you came up with a question that didn't contain a verb, used either (a) winced (b) welled or (c) walked. Write out a copy of your poem, and leave it in a public space!