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A Way to Awaken 

Poetry by ​Phibby Venable

You may wake up with gravity

no longer friendly, your mind
floating in another arena
You may stand birdlike, unsure
of the mastery of walking
Everything moving down
is moving upwards
There may be a bird flinging
itself against your window,
but it doesn't want in,
it wants you to come out
And when you step out,
and the world is singing
a long, lovely musical,
everything welds back
and nothing is broken
but long clutters of clouds,
and they are only broken
into pure white paintings
creating artistic promises
that you can suddenly read
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Phibby Venable
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Phibby Venable's work has been published in 2River, Poetrybay, Southern Ocean Review, Sow's Ear, Voices, Appalachian Journal and various other national and international magazines. She is the author of three chapbooks, four books of poetry, and a book of short stories. Venable won the Virginia Water Project Award and was nominated for the governor’s award for Volunteer Excellence. She is active in animal rescue. Venable was also nominated by Goldfish Press for the Pushcart Prize in 2009, and by Quill and Parchment Press in 2012. She lives in a valley between the Appalachian and Blue Ridge mountains in Southwest Virginia.

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