Life’s Little Misdirections 🥀🦋

mittens on hearts

your mother had to knit you cool blue mittens
to hold my red hot heart
when we enmeshed in snow
melted and froze
into ice

spring did not thaw you
i was a puddle
cars drove through
sent skyward
blocked promise land
above heartless sun

a heavy rising

you were saved by my freezer
i can still open the door
gaze in that dark refrigerator
and wonder how long
you'll stay in tact
if i could hold you one more time

my mother didn't knit mittens for that


12.20.22
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