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'Evening's sleet' timothy r gates, 11/20/2008

Evening's sleet
once rain
now snow
we slip, slid, 'hurray!'
learned early,
don't eat yellow snow
learned later,
don't eat yellow snow flakes
bad enough, pissed on
pissed on from above, redundant
only one solution:
move out of the way.

Snowy kisses
misses
bliss
catch one
frost bite broken
blackened flesh
moistened
snowy kisses
blowing
caught
sleeping kisses
smiles bursting.

Damn cold;
heaven's hug
hell's envy
ethereal anthems
snow angels,
get up slowly
don't want to conflate the wings
love to say,
'Ahh, that's cute.'
now come a little
closer,
pretend I'm a snow flake,
i promise not to be yellow.