Sweet Slid into Snow
— Sarah Maria Medina
It was like first & everything faded roaring white cold
How blood spread pink She perched bent on motor boat bow
No sculling
only trapped wasp hum Saltwater marsh a bloom blister of mother
& swollen mosquito cheek She should’ve felt like her
but wasn’t sure of it
Pine sap rode between them
an arrowed fortune half-wink
Sweet’s only want a thread of cranberry needle
prick & wild
She hid from mother choler
& husband shrill
dug the blackbird from her wafer mattress
& nestled feathers weighted
by pluck
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