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Anecdotal

Christina Dendy

I swing the shovel at icicles
strung like teeth from the storm gutter
listen to them fall and chime in the wind
as I clatter back along the porch

a misswing and a child’s misstep
avert warning
bring my son into range,

frosty tooth bounces off felted hood
and I run to soothe and scold.

A bloodless lump later, we build a snow fort,
but I’m playing through a slideshow
of accidental deathwatch—
slips falls fevers icy roads curbsides
airplane engines and speeding intersections

the din of one snowflake’s violent flight
through merciless sky
before it melts in my coffee mug
on a winter’s morn:

so many never make it that far.

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