The Rain of the Ice

Eric Baus

 

The horse's pain never imagines a house beyond the storm. Its mirrored breath forms a force that dies without noise. The ice in a sickened room is not salt. Its perfume pours a rain that deletes the tacit skin.

 
Copyright © 2013 by Eric Baus. Used with permission of the author.

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