Awake

Fiction & Poetry
Written By Amanda Barusch

  • Title – Awake

  • Author – Amanda Barusch

  • Genre – Poetry

  • Type – Poem

  • Publication Date – October 16, 2014

  • Publisher – Stone Path Review (UK)

  • Medium – Magazine

  • Available at – Stone Path Review (via MagCloud)

  • Link – https://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/823370?__r=322616

  • PDF – Stone Path Review Fall 2014

  • Source Text:

    Awake

    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!”

  • Audio

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 rapidly changing world.

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