Winter

 

Winter

 

Winter has pulled its cap 

over the sky

 

freezing in edges

wrapping your ridge lines

in rime and firn 

 

an icy and delicate

hand 

that sometimes,

like you,

cracks open.

 

Look there, along your spinning

spine

as the sky lifts its hem 

to let the stars in.

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