“Time to get up.”
His voice cut into my sleep
like soft butter,
a corner of my mattress
dipping beneath him,
a hand on my ankle,
frost in the corners of the window,
crumbs in the corners of my eyes,
a pink sun kissing
the bare treeline,
he in a white dress shirt
saying,
“Little girl, I say to you,
arise.”
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