.
Muster Station 7, Inside Passage, Alaska. 10:46: photo by Austin Granger, 9 July 2013
Just as some guy
is proposing to
Suzanne Pleshette in a cough
syrup commercial,
syrup commercial,
I realize
I've dozed back off and snap
to, crack my left
eye and see you,
dog formed
by shadows of art
books along the wall.
Ron Padgett: Sleep Alarm , from New and Selected Poems (1995) in Collected Poems (Coffee House, 2013)
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Untitled: photo by karena goldfinch, 29 September 2013
Untitled: photo by karena goldfinch, 29 September 2013