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
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.