waking

the archivist September 16, 2025

A Remedy for Insomnia Vera Pavlova (tr. Steven Seymour) Not sheep coming down the hills, not cracks on the ceiling— count the ones you loved, the former tenants of dreams who would keep you awake, once meant the world to you, rocked you in their arms, those who loved you . . . You will […]

the archivist April 22, 2006

The Waking Theodore Roethke I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go. We think by feeling. What is there to know? I hear my being dance from ear to ear. I wake to sleep, and take […]