Poetry and occasional prose from Yasha Yatskan's archives

Aria

Snow-reft
change came
 
and left
the same,
 
in many ways
prayer
 
breaks,
whether out
 
of breath
or time to
 
spare,
to care
 
the radiator
door is open
 
but its frame
is shut,
 
barely
a peep
 
of a ray
comes through to
 
me,
the snowstorm left
 
is one deep
breath aria.
 
--
 
How your
tired moan
 
before
the first snowy
 
night even
fell
 
won't leave my
mouth.
 
Wet steam
pooling up at
 
the grates of such
squat, covered
 
chimneys
isn't ready to,
 
but leaves
in cordons
 
fine as bare
branches.
 
This simple
season is
 
touched by
fantastic
 
pain too, in
that bravery.