FIRST LIGHT
Jeffrey Park
At the first hint of dawn
the children
clatter down the metal steps
to the cellar
excited to see how many
are still alive
and how sticky
or slippery the stone floor
has become.
Jeffrey Park lives in Ebergötzen, Germany, home of
the European Bread
Museum (really). He teaches English for aspiring scientists at the
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and occasional writes poetry.