Writer's Excerpts

these are things that grow in winter

by Chelsea Gamble

published in TOK: Writing the New Toronto - Book 5

cold weather birds
redouble efforts,
wrenching
invisible crumbs
from dirty ice; 

fake flowers bloom into 
expectant
second faces, 
spring anachronisms 
against mint houses 
melting into 
peeling, pistachio porches...

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