A Night Thought Can't Sleep
By Sarah Stern
It's #tbt! Enjoy this great one from SWWIM Every Day's archives!
It stands up and takes you on the bus. Blue jay feather in grass— summer in City Island. The drawbridge. Fishing off the side and the kids running back and forth. What d’yah catch? Orchard Beach two women dancing on Saturday afternoon. Tattooed boys look on. Mother says keep writing. It’s what you have. I hear it in my gut. Don’t worry it’s the words. Give me the words that grind us into meaning like those two on the plaza: forgiveness and wild gesture.
Sarah Stern is the author of three poetry books: We Have Been Lucky in the Midst of Misfortune (Kelsay Books), But Today Is Different (Wipf and Stock Publishers), and Another Word For Love (Finishing Line Press). She is a five-time winner of the Bronx Council on the Arts BRIO Poetry Award, a recipient of two Pushcart Prize nominations, and several Poets & Writers' Readings & Workshops Grants. Learn more: sarahstern.me.
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love this, Sarah! :)