Snow Queen

The Snow Queen swiftly steals away
a frozen white glittering scepter, waving over
clouds of fear preserved in the ether of smoke
perched lofty in her glacier chariot creating
every pulse, every breath as I discovered
your electrical death. How the power of ice
kept only the memory of heat inside
when blankets danced over doorways, the current traveling invisibly
like a crystallized, poisonous snake, the cloud of fear preserved
in the electrical wires from the road trapped beneath. Visions of blood
in every breath. From snow blindness
to the animal’s white bones cracking, time has transformed your face—
into kisses that freeze,
love that separates.