Winter

I can’t stop yearning for winter

I miss the electricity in my bones

The way that my lungs fill with splinters

Stripped from the wood 

On the porch 

At the home that’s not home

I can see the flames in your eyes

The way the twigs snap and shatter

I swear you look like a dream

Even when you’re dressed in goose bumps

Even when your teeth start to chatter

Please won’t you shake me around 

So i can fall with the leaves 

What’s done with my body 

Is up to the trees.

You’ll spread like a wildfire 

I’ll spread like disease.