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.