Kimberly Kralowec

[I rearrange my inner ear]

I rearrange my inner ear
to link with your pulse,
the other side of your heart—
a rose in the uncracked dawn.
Our dreams are deafening,
folded under our pillows. 
The bound-up certainty
of the coming sunrise 
is what keeps us asleep. 
On the dresser-top,
shadows of dust climb.

Kimberly Kralowec is the author of a chapbook, We Retreat into the Stillness of Our Own Bones (Tolsun Books, forthcoming May 2022). A lawyer by profession, she holds a J.D. from the University of California, Davis, School of Law, and an English degree from Pomona College in Claremont, California. Her awards include the Patrick J. Hopkins Memorial Writing Award and the F.S. Jennings Prize in Expository Writing. Originally from a small town in the San Joaquin Valley, she now lives in San Francisco and has been named one of the Top 100 Women Lawyers in California. Her poems have appeared in journals such as The Night Heron Barks, High Shelf, Star 82 Review, Birdland, and West Trestle Review.

Learn more about Kim at her poetry blog, http://www.anapoetics.com, and her law blog, http://www.uclpractitioner.com.