April 3rd, 2009
Katherine Bode-Lang
SPRING MELT
They separate in March:
the first of our friendsto decide on divorce.
We tiptoe around the month;we’ve been fighting,
too. Our house is anover-starched shirt.
The month is dark with rain,the streets all slick
like sadness. We wait,rarely patient, for a thaw,
for our hands to unknotinto hands again. But
our friends are an ice floebreaking apart in spring’s
thick current. We pullthe muck of winter
from the gutters, hopethe water runs clean again;
nothing more than this:we hold onto each other
like upturned boats—even if cold can never
really go away, even ifwe might always feel the frost
at the edges of our bodies.
–from Rattle #27, Summer 2007
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