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Awaken before first light

Consider:

cat asleep between knees

Disturb her to pee

or try to sleep again?

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Awaken before choosing:

surrender to stormy skies?

Trust the overgrown path?

How to know right,

left to the light

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Awaken before dying:

Is it possible?

warm in honeyed amber

puff of cotton fiber

breathe in waves

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Awaken in the present

where cats live

Now eat now sleep now

Climb the windowsill,

make holes in the screen

Can you see?