Predawn Thing
After '4.48: Psychosis' by Sarah Kane
This life may be a lie; a dream;
a computer simulation built by aliens.
I wake at 4.38 am
see the same red numbers,
and know the hologram of my life.
The still curtains.
A movement on the windowpane:
an unknown insect
appearing from the predawn grey.
My eyes so close, watching.
It seems to speak of something I will always
be watching.
Wes Lee lives in Eastbourne. She has four poetry collections - her latest, Wearing Today, was shortlisted for The Kathleen Grattan Award 2023 (Otago University Press). Most recently she was awarded the Magma Editors' Prize 2024/25; the 2024 Free Verse Prize, by The Poetry Society, in London, and the Heroines/Joyce Parkes Women's Writing Prize 2022, in New South Wales.
