“W A K E : A SLEEP IN FORTY-SOMETHING WINKS” by Jennifer Sperry Steinorth (poetry ’15)

W A K E : A SLEEP IN FORTY-SOMETHING WINKS

Midway through our night’s sleep
I woke to find the dream lost
My body shaken from it— salt

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At the midpoint of the night we were allotted 

I found myself     in dark apartment

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Half through rocky return journey
I woke beneath a skein of geese
three fleet deer mice scrambling o’er me

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