Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Poetic Justice

Image by Tess Kincaid


Poetic Justice

It started like a guilty thing.
I won’t pretend it was accidental.
He turned and I was lost.
Frost knit his eyebrows,
my lashes. We spit in the gorge
for luck; it landed broadside
on stones and ice. His people
are big spitters; they spit for fate,
mine spit for hate. This was no
dicey romance; what happened
to me, happened to him.
Angels have a way of knowing
things; they spit an avalanche
the day he kissed me in the snow.


Tess Kincaid
December 2010

Posted over on her site Willow Manor
Listed as #1 over on Magpie Tales 43

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