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Cold Pocket by Rosa Turner Boschen

​I crawl
into the space
you've built
between us,
cool,
dark,
empty
like
the lining
of your coat,
draped by
an icy window.
You know
I can't
bear
the chill.
Still, you
drive me
here. Where
else
am I
to go?
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