Rebecca Farivar is a poet and California native currently living in Bonn, Germany. Correct Animal, her first full-length collection of poems, will be published in July 2011 by Octopus Books. She holds an MFA in poetry from St. Mary’s College of California and a BA from The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. She is a member of the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley.

The Awakening

He disrupts you—you are
a very bad mother—

and moves you
to a mood.

You did sweat
beyond skin.

You did swim
toward the tear.