[1] The black tar road snakes like a tongue Between the icicled trees. This too is how I rove your moonlight body, disrobed and undulant Under a full moon.

[2] Ice boxes in the houses, and knives air hanging From the eaves. Love too takes possession like this: First glazing the soul, and then the sharp barbed Wire against some invisible figure walking in Those large empty snow fields.

[3] A weak sun visits the snow capped earth Like an old aunt who wears mourning black Attending a wedding. The branches bristle with Icy thorns outside a room full of shoes. Someone is walking barefoot across a frozen lake. Someone else is scanning the blue veins on a white page.