Day: December 3, 2019

  • even the knot of my shadow

    250px-R._Ward_Shipman_-_Long_Winter

     

    along the southern skyline
    snow is falling like hansel and gretel’s crumbs
    or grains of rice, flung out
    on neither trail nor time

    i parked the car just in time
    to avoid my own destination
    wearing wind and twilight
    my snowdrop necklace touching my frozen palm

    even the balcony columns look like
    frozen, withered skulls.
    this too shall pass, although
    not unmarked by the whiteness of the air

    there is nowhere
    to go in this blizzard
    but inward. even the knot of my shadow
    wears snow-pins in her hair

    while two teabags in the teapot
    huddle for strength and warmth
    and snowflakes jewel the windowsill.
    take my hand and look–

    you can see it snowing in my eyes

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