The Waiting

Kristin George Bagdanov
| poetry

 

give me any lyre-like thing

I’m on my knees

what

I’m on my knees

*

the swamp I move
through

careful

your own drowning
is at hand

*

presume breath &
you will always be
disappointed

presume death
& be
a hand reaching

*

counting backwards
from nothing

wake me

Lord

the waiting,
take that too

Kristin George Bagdanov is a PhD student in literature at U.C. Davis. She earned her MFA in poetry at Colorado State University and has poems in The Cincinnati Review, Berkeley Poetry Review, The Laurel Review, and other journals.

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