#MIDDLEBURY
Someone
Joseph O. Legaspi
Somewhere someone rises
far earlier than you before
the faintest glimmer blues
the darkest dark wakens
without alarm without body
roused by the nightingales
neighbor friend or stranger
who hasn’t seen his sunlit
children faces a cold sink
oh caffeinated sleepwalker
march daily industry with
necessity down one flight
then up two is heaven in
someone warm beside you
About this poem
“With this poem I think of cycles. And meditate on devotion, perseverance, work, loneliness and our vast multitudes stirring in our own private universes. How we are all someone to someone else.” – Joseph O. Legaspi
About Joseph O. Legaspi
Joseph O. Legaspi is the author of the forthcoming collection “Threshold” (CavanKerry Press, 2017). He lives in Queens, N.Y.
The Academy of American Poets is a nonprofit, mission-driven organization, whose aim is to make poetry available to a wider audience. Email The Academy at poem-a-day@poets.org.
(c) 2016 Joseph O. Legaspi. Originally published in Poem-a-Day, www.poets.org. Distributed by King Features Syndicate.
