So I waited there for you
all through the night
but you could not get through
and bit by bit flake by flake it became clear
I was running dry
it was 26 degrees
on the wrong side of zero
and the snow was coming down
like a child’s feather pillow
torn open and flung to the sky
cattails and mitten strings
cumulonimbus things
mufflers and rabbit fur
buried me alive
in the snowstorm in my mind
my thoughts freeze before they hit the ground and shatter
and the snow makes me blind
sometimes it’s good sometimes it’s better to be blind
it was 26 degrees
on the wrong side of zero – wrong side
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