Ice and light

Trying to skate
Through this year
Of loss without
The ice creeping up
My ankles

Without
My skates
Drinking through to the
Water underneath

The water is thirsty for me
But I fell in love
Unexpectedly
With the sun

Now I am in a race
In a balancing act

In a beautiful
Coital
Coil
With light and ice

Breath is
Warmth and death

Cold is burning
Dread and laughing
Safety, a hope

That hops out ahead of me
Teasing me into following
The lines of my skates

Inscribing love poems
To the sun
To the skin of winter
To the death that came, the one what will not come

The ones I hold in holes in my teeth
Crying with my mouths closed
To keep them close