Snow tendrils between my legs
Stark against soft brown pseudo-suede
Vegan tree-hugger boots
Stamping zigzag patterns on the white
Sheet that has settled
Beneath the tread.
The flurry has
Removed my hat, my scarf, my gloves
Aging blonde hair thirty years or more
And I feel the ice in the marrow
Of my bones.
Your embrace is my mug of cocoa
Melting me from the inside out
Warming these pink cheeks
Thawing these beautiful
Crystalline bones.
Stark against soft brown pseudo-suede
Vegan tree-hugger boots
Stamping zigzag patterns on the white
Sheet that has settled
Beneath the tread.
The flurry has
Removed my hat, my scarf, my gloves
Aging blonde hair thirty years or more
And I feel the ice in the marrow
Of my bones.
Your embrace is my mug of cocoa
Melting me from the inside out
Warming these pink cheeks
Thawing these beautiful
Crystalline bones.
© 2017 Elise Price