In my city it never snowed.
Winters came and rushed through the wind like little brooks scared of freezing. Mornings bloomed and drowned in a horizon erased by fog . The snowflowers never fall.
All I have of winter are asleep bushes of lenten rose...a leafless tree and misty windowpanes on a white wall. Still here I wait
for I need to know something colder before I leave,
colder than our parted hands,
than eyes devoid of love.
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