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ON THEIR TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY

Snow drips like sap
from chalky gray clouds.
Hilltops whiten.
Between slopes and houses,
wind channels a season's worth
of bitterness.
The world belongs to those
who can live with a chill in their bones,
the blue of their skin.
Shudderers fall to the wayside.
Tremblers are sucked up
by the sheep-white mounds.
One man is invigorated
by the ice-floes in his blood.
One woman takes to
the pain in her fingers
like it's a handshake
from God.
They are out there now,
twenty years into a relationship.
They call it winter
through the mists of breath,
with a corpse's attitude,
with a frigid pride.



John Grey's latest book is “What Else Is There” from Main Street Rag. He has been published recently in Agni, Hubbub, South Carolina Review and The Journal Of The American Medical Association.




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