to find
someone you love
asleep
cheek
to
cheek
the tenderness
flows
uphill
my son
awake to the night
while I am
past my time
to find
someone you love
asleep
cheek
to
cheek
the tenderness
flows
uphill
my son
awake to the night
while I am
past my time
Fran Bartkowski teaches English and Women’s Studies at Rutgers University-Newark. She is the author of Feminist Utopias (1989), and Travelers, Immigrants, Inmates (1995), and co-editor of Feminist Theory: A Reader (2004). She is the single mother of a 16-year-old son. “Sweet Dreams” is her first published poem.