All night the baby won't sleep. Moonlight seeps through the curtains and into the milk. Tell her a story and she goes silken in the crib. Unrolls and tumbles to the floor again and again. All night, we feed her sugar and water and hope for the best. Place her in the dresser drawer for safe-keeping while the outside animals long to be inside animals, their tiny snouts nestling at our knees. The inside animals grow claws and teeth and keep hiding the baby in the pantry, where she cries all night until we rescue her, always, at the last minute.