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    Watching Snowflakes Melt

     

    by Ace Boggess

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    against a small yard rock

    one by one they reach its ragged brown

    wait there like insects

    white flecks of pocket lint

    blink & I’ve missed them

    vanishing inward in instant fade

    the stone still warm from a sunnier day                

     

    a cycle: they land then shrink &

    self-erase like suicides

    jumping from bridges into the wet embrace

     

    I want to catch them in my palm &

    oversee their sudden thaw

     

    they disappear too quickly

    so I hunch down staring

    at this protrusion from the garden

    where they pause just long enough to rest

     

    stripping themselves of themselves

    leaning toward the invisible

    present & no longer there

    lovers who have stayed too long

    under the covers of a stranger’s bed

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