After the heavy storm, we found an opossum and her litter hiding in the
basement.
Ilitter l'lit-erl noun
1. garbage tossed on the ground
2. newborn animals born to one mother
3. a stretcher for carrying a wounded person
2litter verb
1. to scatter objects around
2. to supply an animal with bedding

the black night was split open like the coconut

it says that it was totally black in the mind of a person but suddenly his mind opened like a coconut with the sweetness of the coconut water and the white color inside it.

or

the black night was thrown like a coconut and it slit apart with its sweet water coming out .

this is b. how railways dealt with people riding the trains without paying