Rugged adventure with an ever present tang of danger. --Thomas Fortenberry
Alice Shapiro is Poet Laureate Emeritus of Douglasville, Georgia, a twice Pushcart-nominated poet, and author of three collections of poetry. She was also nominated for Georgia Author of the Year for her first poetry book Cracked: Timeless Topics of Nature, Courage and Endurance. Her second collection, Life: Descending / Ascending, also published by TotalRecall Press, was released October 2010 and a third volume titled Saltian was published by unboundContent Press in 2011. Her newest publication is a coloring book of her artwork and poems titled The Awesome Adult Coloring Book.
Excerpt
Interruption
It is the deepest part of night.
Resisting the exit from sleep,
eyes swollen shut,
still half within a dream,
Nature calls.
It takes some while
to transition
from sedentary rest
into just enough awareness
to sense the danger of retreat
back to the pillow.
So, the trek begins from bed
in the moonless dark.
A hand extends,
an eye's substitute
to navigate the path ahead--
past armoire
past door jamb
trembling, reaching for
the blinding light.
It is within this faint condition,
business done,
that comes another invitation--
the lure of sinking back to
dark oblivion,
supplanted
by the pen.
Into the unseen dawn,
scratches on a page
recount
a journey won--
one more day on Earth,
one more sun.
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