by Sarah White
Five o’clock
on a winter morning.
Half asleep
alone.
Five-year-old
Owen
at the door.
Bad dream,
Mom.
I mumble—
Crawl in …
It’s warm.
At dawn
he wakes,
stretches,
looks around,
remembers.
This
is really living,
he exclaims.
Sarah White: Author of Cleopatra Haunts the Hudson (Spuyten Duyvil, 2007) and Alice Ages and Ages (BlazeVox, 2010), she is working on a collection of linked poems inspired by Dante’s Purgatorio.