Wind Chill

Portrait of Linda Pastan
Linda Pastan 1932–2023

The door of winter is frozen shut,

and like the bodies of long extinct animals, cars

lie abandoned wherever the cold road has taken them.

How ceremonious snow is, with what quiet severity

it turns even death to a formal arrangement.

Alone at my window, I listen to the wind,

to the small leaves clicking in their coffins of ice.

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  1. brittany venne United States

    to linda

    this poem is a great one

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