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Another Day

—a found poem: Virginia Woolf’s The Waves

I feel the bruised cry of birds in my body

when I wake.

Thinness rushes my pink imperfect heart

and I am cast down at another day—

hands and feet and body.

Here is idleness, brown water, disgrace.

The sun is yellow and laughing

leaves stir and patter across the lawn

and I long for darkness and sleep—

its brass thud, its pirouetting slam.

I lie here and watch the bedroom

harden into night.