No One Told Me

There are thousands of snowy days and showers

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If you’d have told me when I was ten
all the mornings I would soft lap coffee
into a hand-thrown cup in the company
of women, I’d have never believed you.

When I imagined a future, tall and gone,
I only figured things would happen
once, my child mind missing a…