Today I present you with a poem selected for us by Dana Koster. Dana sends me a poem each month in the subscription check out form, and I thought I would share this with you. Until next week my friends.
When I Wake My Daughter for School
She Tells Me I’ve Ruined the Dream She Had
by Sarah Carson, from the September 2024 issue of Electric Lit
Yes, love, I say to her: Don’t I know it?
And yet.
Just imagine— how much else can be ruined by love,
by that which we’ve dreamed might love us in return.
Here, dear, is what I’ve been trying,
failing every which way to teach you:
the world is equal parts reverie and premonition.
Sometimes to dream is to see the world as it could be.
Sometimes to dream is to see the world as it is & remain awake.
