The Dead of Night
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Awake and outside
among nocturnal animals
something between prey and predator
roaming
below sky
another universe
expanding
a liminal space
without transition
lost in a quiet riot
the fluid movement of my parts
deft in skill
hunting for peace
caught in a snow globe
going round and round in the dark
shaken by fear
falling past trees
like bodies or monsters
encroaching and reaching
restless limbs keep me going
I remember what
keeps me here
insomnia
open windows
pulsing with snores
escaping
I won’t make it back by daybreak
wishes bloom
encouraged by stars
moonlight stains my face
as I fight back sleep
longing for a creature of comfort
to sit out the night
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TAK Erzinger
TAK Erzinger is an American/Swiss poet and artist with a Colombian background. Her poetry has been featured in Cornell University’s Bien Acompañada, McMaster University’s The Muse, River and South Review, Welter, and more. Her debut chapbook Found: Between the Trees was published by Grey Border Books in 2019, and her 2021 poetry collection At the Foot of the Mountain won the University of Indianapolis’s Whirling Prize for best nature poetry book. A staff writer for Alebrijes Review, TAK lives in a Swiss valley with her husband and cats.
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