The road seems to end in the sky, where we dislodge grief by wiping our eyes, waiting for the thaw to commence; meanwhile my frozen spine feels like a swarm of giant ants biting, and to break the chill we sip hot tea in a roadside café.
–with gratitude to Meg Pokrass
(published in righthandpointing.net
–number 73, “one-sentence poems,” March 2014)
copyright 2014 by Floyce Alexander
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