12/23/10

Found an early, bitter snow
on your barren outer piece
so I peeled away the flakes
like dead cells from the fleece.
My teeth became the seeds
and my gums became a shell
while I warmed an early frost
and your swollen brothers fell.

4 comments:

  1. Lovely poem, so evocative and full of emotion. All your writing is amazing!

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  2. Your writing is truly fantastic. Those few lines were so rich! I will certainly read back again!

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  3. Wow, intense but in a way that's understandable. Love it!

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