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Waking

by Emma Keanie
​amidst the fading flotsam of night 
the lachrymatory vessels wrestle 
with the presentiment of being 
whetted into consciousness 
as the fine saw edges of barbed 
lashes lift and there you are 
Kleist lidless in front of the monk 
peeled back into another day 

Emma Keanie is a Ph.D. researcher in Samuel Beckett studies at the University of Reading. She has a Master of Arts and Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from Ulster University, and she is a reviewer for The Beckett Circle. Emma is interested in the shapes and sounds of poetry; how thoughts drift silently staining the page.