Coolness
Coolness
Sublime coolness
How I missed you
Flowing into the house
Your feathery touch
Brushing my face
Lifting spirits
Coolness
Filling the body’s vacuum
Inhaling and
Exhaling too
Breathing you in
Letting you go
Chest rising and falling
Walking through coolness
Arms cut the air
They displace it
Then place it
In a basket
Like fruit
Stored against winter’s hunger
Licking at air’s coolness
As it flows over and under
Like a kitten’s tongue
Lapping the milk’s sweetness
Or a child’s energetic gorging
Of a cone’s silkiness
Whether vanilla, strawberry or chocolate
Coolness
Not yet coldness
Nature’s balm
Building a nest with the
Thinnest of sticks
Insulating, protecting from
Winter’s frostiness
KDK
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Copyright © Kathleen Kroll | Year Posted 2016
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