{"id":22447,"date":"2020-02-13T06:36:33","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T14:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heuermontage.com\/?p=22447"},"modified":"2020-02-13T06:36:33","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T14:36:33","slug":"hand-on-my-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heuermontage.com\/?p=22447","title":{"rendered":"Hand on my Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hand on my heart, this poem followed me into my dreams. Beneath the I-5 underpass near our house lives a homeless person, who does not even own a tent. He sits in piles of garbage, for weeks, months now and we all drive by. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Meditations in an Emergency<\/p>\n\n\n\n

by Cameron Awkward-Rich<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wake up & it breaks my heart. I draw the blinds & the thrill of rain breaks my heart. I go outside. I ride the train, walk among the buildings, men in Monday suits. The flight of doves, the city of tents beneath the underpass, the huddled mass, old women hawking roses, & children all of them, break my heart. There\u2019s a dream I have in which I love the world. I run from end to end like fingers through her hair. There are no borders, only wind. Like you, I was born. Like you, I was raised in the institution of dreaming. Hand on my heart. Hand on my stupid heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cameron Awkward-Rich<\/a><\/strong>, both a poet and a critic, is the author of Sympathetic Little Monster<\/em> (Ricochet Editions, 2016) and Dispatch<\/em> (Persea Books<\/strong><\/a>, 2019), winner of the 2018 Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award. His poetry has appeared in Narrative, The Baffler, Indiana Review, Verse Daily, The Offing<\/em>, and elsewhere, and he has received fellowships from Cave Canem and The Watering Hole. Cam holds a PhD in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University and is Assistant Professor in Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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