Cold Fireflies
Right-minded
so far today
after
three months of crazy—
what
relief can compare?
It’s
too deep for joy. Too delicate.
Three,
four hours now since
waking
in the still bed,
waking
slowly, the covers
not
torn apart, the walls blank and holding.
No
breakthroughs yet. But
how
long can it last?
I’m
half afraid to write these lines.
Even
thinking them feels reckless.
Just now.
Watch these specks
of
snow, so tiny, so intermittent,
appear
and disappear in the air,
jig
this way and dance that, cold
fireflies,
some finding their way
to
the dark ground, where they melt.
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