Étude No. 11

- From Portraits of Balaam

I woke up this mornin’
it was just rainin’,
droplets goin’ ticke-tucke ticke-tucke.

I woke up this mornin’
I felt something real deep—
So I told myself to just go back to sleep.

I woke up this mornin’
singin’ that I was not myself.


-Samantha Derleth