Poetry – Issue 3 | February 2009
Four Poems by Amy MacLennan
Up
Most times the alarm cuts through,
high tones that jerk me
to sudden morning. It takes a weekend
for honest waking, the swim up
through a wild league of ocean,
last breath of sleep to carry me
from the reaches, ears ringing, just
a blur left from the quieting city below.
About the author
Amy MacLennan loves traveling to places like Andorra, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg and Talent, Oregon (which has the best curried tuna salad sandwich ever). Amy’s work has been published or is forthcoming in Cimarron Review, Folio, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Linebreak, Pearl, Rattle and River Styx. Her poems are forthcoming in the anthologies Not a Muse and Eating Her Wedding Dress: A Collection of Clothing Poems.
