All Things Rhapsodical

All Things Rhapsodical

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All Things Rhapsodical
To Wake

To Wake

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Alexander Riley
Jan 13, 2023
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To Wake
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[The new day—and year—leaping in through the window, to great surprise]

With the annoying buzz of an alarm, and often these days driven frantically by a straining bladder demanding to be drained, I swim achingly up out of the bottomless sea of nightly unconsciousness, the light appearing first as a dim shimmering, then a fuzzy beacon, finally the illumin…

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