Awake

Poetry
Written By Amanda Barusch

A brief, intimate poem about the suspended moment between sleep and waking, Awake captures warmth, tenderness, and the reluctance to leave the shelter of night. It was published in Stone Path Review.

  • Type – poem

  • Publication / Venue – Stone Path Review

  • Publisher – Stone Path Review

  • Publication date – October 16, 2014

  • Format(s) – PDF, print

  • Available at – Stone Path Review issue; PDF

  • About this work – A brief, intimate poem that captures the suspended moment between sleep and waking. Through delicate sensory detail, it evokes warmth, tenderness, and the quiet reluctance to leave behind the shelter of night.

Awake
Amanda Barusch

  • Winter sunrise kindles a tender
    mist as the bell bird call
    punctures
    your dreamscape.
    A breeze promises coffee and toast
    but
    your smoky hair and goose down
    still hold the night’s heat.
    And the curtains whisper,
    “Not yet!”

Amanda Barusch

Amanda Barusch has worked as a janitor, exotic dancer, editor, and college professor. She lives in the American West, where she spends as much time as possible on dirt paths. She has an abiding disdain for boundaries and adores ambiguity. Amanda has published eight books of non-fiction, a few poems, and a growing number of short stories. Aging Angry is her first work of creative non-fiction. She uses magical realism to explore deep truths of the human experience in this ever-changing world.

https://www.amandabarusch.com
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