Called by Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet

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and I go   down into it, the hall again (streetlights, blinds)   all the same all the dark   down into it and do what must be done with my body, with the patience that I do not have   fellow sufferer, fellow sleeper, not-   sleeper, seeker   night boat, little sail   in the slow air in the rounded dark inside the broken night   rudderless   elliptical   in the stitched-together minute   minute   minute   365 x night x 8                                 (new)   x 4 x 2 x 8 again                                            (despair, iron) x 2 x 1, x occasional, x rarity                (fever, monsters, light)   = now   = again   once            Copyright © 2014 by Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet. Used with permission of the author. About This Poem   “‘Called’ arose out of years of waking in the night with my son, helping him return to sleep—an experience that I found exasperating, exhausting, and occasionally transcendent. The mental math was one mechanism for moving myself toward the calmer end of the spectrum.” —Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet   Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet is the author of The Greenhouse (Bull City Press, 2014) and Tulips, Water, Ash (Northeastern University Press, 2009). She teaches at UC Berkeley Extension and lives in Oakland, California. Most Recent Book by Stonestreet   The Greenhouse (Bull City Press, 2014) "My Mother Would Be a Falconress" by Robert Duncan "Forced Bloom" by David Baker "Silence" by Marianne Moore Poem-a-Day   Launched during National Poetry Month in 2006, Poem-a-Day features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends. Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org.   You are receiving this e-mail because you elected to subscribe to our mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe, please click here.   © Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038