The Snow Queen Learns to Breathe

Poetry

Audrey Howitt
The Lark
Published in
Nov 8, 2022

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Photo by Todd Trapani on Unsplash

she longs for winter, its bite
and the coolness of days acting like night
crosses fingers,
counts days
watches them fall away
dead skin sloughed off with an old loofa
circling the drain before a final peek at the light

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Audrey Howitt
The Lark

A licensed attorney and psychotherapist, opera singer, voice teacher, and poet.