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. Christina Pacosz  in this issue... Tags: Thanal Online, web magazine dedicated for poetry and literature Christina Pacosz, Alarm Clock
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