Christina Pacosz
USA

Born and raised in Detroit by working-class Polish-American parents, Christina Pacosz’  poetry/writing has appeared in literary magazines and online journals for almost  half a century. A poet-in-the-schools and a North Carolina Visiting Artist, she has published several books of poetry, including Greatest Hits, 1975-2001, Pudding House, 2002, a by-invitation-only series.  Her chapbook, Notes from the Red Zone, originally published by Seal Press in 1983, was selected as the inaugural winner of the ReBound Series by Seven Kitchens Press in 2009.  She lives in Kansas City, Missouri.

 

Inky Top's Cabin
for Larry

 
A hunted fox gone to ground
it is our dog's illicit grave
you visit monthly in this city in the heartland
by the ruined river

 
The cement foundation and collapsed out
buildings are all that remain
of the old sharecropper's cabin
Your refuge and mine too when I could walk in

 
before the earth was scraped raw

 
The creek's watershed
destroyed for a subdivision
All lots up for grabs

 

Just cement pads

 
where no one lives
There is a cistern well
and in early spring
daffodil

 

 

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