TeenWork - Autumn 2007
Hypothermic
Bodies bridging motorways,
we pause in wintertime napping
to exhale icy, crystalline symmetry
on each other’s necks.
Forget-me-not fingers
feather lips, warming the smile
that breathes your name
in lowercase letters
across your sternum.
- Lisa Brigandi, grade 11
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