It's Still Life

On the Hottest Day of the Year

It’s round as a melon
or my shoulders.
Feels ancient in my hands.
Long enduring as that winter
four years ago.
A snowball –
we keep it in the freezer.
Strong as a rock and
light as wind through a dream.
And we take it out, and
oooooh and ahhhh over it,
like I said,
on the hottest day of the year.

For Twiglet 290 “Ice-crusted snow” ©Misky 2022 Shared with #amwriting on Twitter