Watercold
(Utrecht, December 2000)

by Rhoda Hassmann
Ontario, Canada

Bone-chilling
watercold, so wet
my jacket disappears
I'm naked in the black-ice air
skin slippery with moisture

Around the bend
two minutes' walk
I shiver as if caught by flu
the cathedral plain seems infinite
Bells toll, "go home, go home"

This steely night
walking with you

 

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