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In place of wedding rings
we stood toe to toe
& drove twin icicles into our eyes.
I saw like her & she
saw me flaking
into an arctic wind.
Frostbitten lips kiss best.
In her sleigh bed of ice
we tangle under snow sheets
kissing away the wildfires
that sent us flying
away & up &
away from all we made
in cinders
& ash.
Our birthplaces crumble
while we ride on swans’ wings
promising to try better
than melted crowns
staining black tears
on our cheeks.
Marisca Pichette's work has appeared in Strange Horizons, Fireside Magazine, Room Magazine, Ligeia Magazine, Enchanted Living, and Plenitude Magazine, among others. Her debut poetry collection, Rivers in Your Skin, Sirens in Your Hair, is forthcoming from Android Press in Spring 2023.