Cold Love

                        by William R. Rozek

Winter arrived

Late last night,

A mistress cloaked

In a delicate

Pristine guise

Of cold crystalline love,

Adorned in frozen gems,

Set, from the beginning of time,

To deceive a trusting mind

Into thinking

That her soft,

White, viable flesh

Was capable of any

Human warmth...

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