Awake

Abstract

After a nearly-sleepless night,

I dozed—finally—then woke,

4 a.m., to rain on my face,

pinging through the open bedroom window—

little refreshments, messages of

effervescence;

I loved our liquid world again, anything seemed possible.

LISA BELLAMY

Footnotes

Lisa Bellamy teaches at The Writers Studio. She is the author of The Northway, a poetry collection, and Nectar, a chapbook, and has received a Pushcart Prize and Fugue Poetry Prize. She graduated from Princeton and serves on the staff of the Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church.