YOUR EYES ARE CLOSED BUT YOU AREN\u2019T DREAMING<\/p>\n
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You are traveling slowly,
\nlike a great shipwreck still sailing.
\nAlmost tenderly, the sun puts a hand to your forehead.
\nYes, you think, I\u2019ve been unwell. You sink into the feeling.
\nBut the sun is blind and must touch everything:
\nalways feeling its gold way forward towards the dark.<\/p>\n
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This poem first appeared on a Seattle metro bus through the Poetry on Buses program, and is featured in I Take Back the Sponge Cake: A Lyrical Choose Your Own Adventure<\/em> <\/a>by Sierra Nelson and Loren Erdrich, Rose Metal Press 2012.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Seattle poet Sierra Nelson<\/a> is co-founder of The Typing Explosion<\/a> and Vis-\u00e0-Vis Society, <\/a>president of Seattle’s Cephalopod Appreciation Society, a MacDowell fellow, and has poems in Crazyhorse, Poetry Northwest, <\/a>Thermos, Fairy Tale Review,<\/em> and Forklift Ohio,<\/em> among others. Her lyrical choose-your-own-adventure book, \u00a0I Take Back the Sponge Cake<\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0with visual artist\u00a0Loren Erdrich<\/a>,\u00a0debuts from Rose Metal Press<\/a>\u00a0this month. Sierra will read from her new book at Open Books<\/a> on Friday, April 20 at 7:30 pm, along with poet\u00a0Zachary Schomburg<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" YOUR EYES ARE CLOSED BUT YOU AREN\u2019T DREAMING You are traveling slowly, like a great shipwreck still sailing. Almost tenderly, the sun puts a hand to your forehead. Yes, you think, I\u2019ve been unwell. You sink into the feeling. … Continue reading