by Kathryn Knight Sonntag

pre-dawn

orange on drawn curtains. pull on this
sweatshirt, creak floors past babies,

pass kitchen counters—a rain
jacket, boots, an open

door.

olympus, sentinel of my eastern
sky, bids eyes open.

three

tired, blinking lids.

Kathryn Knight Sonntag is the poetry editor of Wayfare Magazine, the author of The Mother Tree (Faith Matters Publishing, 2022), winner of the 2022 BIBA Literary Award in Non-Fiction: Religion, and of the poetry collection The Tree at the Center (BCC Press, 2019). Her poems appear most recently in Image Journal, Colorado Review, and Four Way Review. She works as a freelance writer and landscape architect in Salt Lake City. Her website is kathrynknightsonntag.com. She is on Twitter @KnightSonntag.