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Best Poems Written by Jody Cutler

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Climate Change

Dawn to dawn now flying fast   
Only the darkest coldest nights
Do I look to every cycle and savor to the last.

When all the ghosts of past are frozen 
Friends and lovers lost and chosen
Recycled, neatly folded into downy blankets molded.   

The thaws instead I dread 
When cruelly cracking melt and mull of ice like spice to rains 
That fades and muddles in my soul the little that remains.

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Winter Night

Once I would have wanted to explain 
Now, though, best to cut the losses – nothing here to gain.   

I’ll say there was a flame to follow through  
I wanted to believe it could be true 
Let you in my head; instead, it never flew.

The depths to which I bent— 
Beneath my winter covers I pretended we were lovers
Did you get the telepathic messages I sent?
  
A last request, most difficult to make 
Please help me with the necessary break  
Delete the traces of my name 
And let me lay to sleeping dogs the blame.      

(2012)

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Melancholia

The square is filled with the tingling air of spring
They came from far and near the masses gathered there, 
Celebratory, a bit premature, to shed their outer gear.   

It's the human way, so the elders say to those who ask  
To egg on winter's fate--sooner is better than late
Come join the fray--the hedgehog tale provides a date.  

Yet even if the shadow cast is vast the light will have its way  
Like a hunch, its nagging creep--until it gets into my sleep 
And I begin to wait and weep in secret for the solace of the darkest day.

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Cold Valentine's

As frigid as my heart the wind blew in
The bracing cold upon my face was nice
My veins already tart -- prepared for ice
Like darkness, filtering down where I have been.   

Age is raison d'etre lost, not gained 
Splintered, flaked loves long extinguished
No longer can they be distinguished 
Yet the frosted fragments have remained.  

For now, my tingling digits hold that broken past 
The somnambulant freeze just helps it last.

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Jonas

In the snow the long lost child
A blink at once bold dreams now mild. 
Fading flickers struggling to survive    
To capture, stoke and keep alive.   

Mighty enough to close the local bars
The tiny frozen falling stars 
Create a magic carpet ride 
I might take off or stay beneath to hide. 

Or angel feathers blanketing the world  
A time-machine of sorts unfurled. 
Woven into the downy dust
Only in this crystalline god I trust 

Like leavened manna from above
The stinging crumbs of long lost love 
And hope yet in these dwindling years 
Descends in nature's lacy tears.

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More Snow

It will never be enough
A flicker hovers 
That no snow will ever smother. 
I do prefer its cloak of all the weather 
When the land is laid to rest beneath its cover 
It makes me less afraid of death 
And brings me time to isolate
To wallow, wail, procrastinate. 
 
Don't believe that no one has regret
Sad but true the human will to drown 
In hot pursuit to gain renown        
Too late to toughen up and join that race
I prefer in any case to hunker down
From deep inside my space
I beam just one electron through the flakes 
And keep my dream of you awake.