When asked to write about senses

The skeletal fingers of March's trees

reach across the street

above automobiles that graciously

slide across the snow.



Dias

layer themselves up

upon days



And nights

blacker than the water surrounding submarines

swallow up the stars



So what you see

is three-hundred-years-ago-dead

and what you get

is numb fingers

snowy shoulders

a waterfall of mucus cascading

to your chattering teeth.

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