Sleepless Triolet

January digs up her dead
And ties their limbs to sticks with string.
Night dances them across my bed.
January digs up her dead—
Keen words I wish we never bred
Pirouette and, tangled, sing.
January digs up her dead
And ties our limbs to sticks with string.

2014

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