Out Sleepwalking

When my time bent alongside the study of light
        I traded fun for a quiet life
happening was happening
in a few people and cows, B Minor Waltz
a weedy herb along the path

        from a distance, a good cry
doesn’t make a good story

            but I keep an open mouth
poke a hole in this bit of paper late at night

              see what flies in
   two raindrops tap a lemon

            the world has all this nonhuman percussion
the fear part, and then something else

Jared Stanley is a poet who often works with artists and sometimes writes in prose. He is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently So Tough (Saturnalia, 2024). He lives in Reno, Nevada.

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Out Sleepwalking