Kimberly Quiogue Andrews is an American poet and literary critic. She is the author of A Brief History of Fruit, winner of the Akron Prize for Poetry from the University of Akron Press, BETWEEN, winner of the New Women’s Voices Chapbook Prize from Finishing Line Press, and The Academic Avant-Garde, a scholarly monograph from Johns Hopkins University Press. She teaches creative writing and American literature at the University of Ottawa, and you can find her on the web at www.kqandrews.com.

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POETRY

Study a Cause

By KIMBERLY QUIOGUE ANDREWS

Its seclusion, its great swaths of stillness. Wakefulness in amber.