Alarm Clock
Christina Pacosz
Pre-dawn An open window A small girl asleep in a youth bed Decals
on the headboard of Jack and Jill tumbling down Their pail perpetually spilling
the water
they've climbed the hill to fetch A young blue jay wearing natty plumage of blue
and black
and white only recently an egg soars across the room luminous in the dim light
The claws of his feet cling to the cotton coverlet and with his beak he pulls
off the blanket
Calling Wake up Her eyes greet his obsidian gaze
A new day Wake up A new life Wake
Christina Pacosz - Christina Pacosz has been writing and publishing prose and poetry for nearly half a century and has several books of poetry. Born and raised in Detroit, she has lived on both U.S. coasts, New York City, Alaska and southern Appalachia. For the past ten years she has been teaching urban Kansas City youth both sides of the state line; she and her husband of twenty years call Kansas City home.
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