The Frost Blue Coat

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When clothes substitute for dreams, hopes & people, we snuggle into them and feel their warmth, says a poet.

The Frost Blue Coat
wasn’t meant to be mine,
the size XL on sale for half its price
was, at best, oversized.
It shone like impenetrable frost
pasted onwhite petals of autumn trees,
as the lanky model sold to me
some of her emaciation.
I took a risk, either size could shrink
or the expense could bite, but
I gave in to the temptation.



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