Connie Post

Connie Post served as first Poet Laureate of Livermore, California Her work has appeared in Calyx, Comstock Review, One, Cold Mountain Review, Slipstream, Spillway, River Styx, Spoon River Poetry Review, Valparaiso Poetry Review and Verse Daily. Her first full length book Floodwater (Glass Lyre Press) won the 2014 Lyrebird Award. Her poetry awards include the Liakoura Award, and the Crab Creek Poetry Award.  Her newest book Prime Meridian was released in January 2020 and was a distinguished favorite in the Independent Press Awards.

Two a.m.

I need more waterbut the plastic cup on my nightstand is empty 
I get up and turn on the lampand in one clickthe entire room is visible
I think about centuries before mehow others woke at the same hourlit a small lanterntraveled to a wooden porchonly to find a screech owlblending into the trees 
I think about a womanwho searched for the only torchin a narrow cavelooking for a childshe lost long ago 
I fall backwardsto before there was fireor even a forest before trees had a name
I think of a small creaturefinding its way out of the oceanlooking for a pathin the dark
finding a sliver of lightamong the vast constellationslight yearsthat come backand find mein this iridescent room 

Connie Post

Two a.m.

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