COOLER
air collars
the waist,
rattles the
window down.
The body
remembers
cold’s kid-ish
on skin.
What’s new
feels at me
walking this
wide stretch
the whole wood
cracks
the
atmosphere.
Movement’s
what’s called
the
heart palpating.
Lily Brown is the author of Rust or Go Missing (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2011) and the chapbook The Haptic Cold (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2013). She lives in Massachusetts and teaches at Franklin Pierce University.
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