C.J. Sage
Three Seasons

I

Her body was a snowflake caught midfall.
She popped herself into her mouth and pressed
herself beneath the tongue to stop a consummation
with the ground. Her body was its own frozen rain.

II

Her body was the flour poured from grain
colored sacks, for the sake of a picnic
and its three-legged race.

III

Her body broke its husk. The husk became
a cast she fills with burning.
 

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