The Many Slumbers

There is something 
profound perhaps 
in the simple fact
that you cannot rouse
another from sleep
without first 
experiencing yourself 
an awakening

Adam Haver received the 2022 Willie Morris Award for Southern Poetry. He was most recently published in The Pierian and Braided Way and will be included in an upcoming edition of Ballast. You can connect with him on Twitter: @ac_haver.