I get up
Anna Akhmatova Quotes (Author of The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova)
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I get up
It is not dawn
by four hours.
A poem has begun
its labor pains.
False labor pains,
a poem in a web spun
with thin words, their powers
addictive as a yawn;
captive nonetheless
am I, insomnia keeping
me in the middle
of it the way love
has done before, only love
with the high-voice of a fiddle
can do once more, & then creeping
out of mind
out of write.