Stone


  A little death;
       only
    the smallest fragment
    of my frosty heart

  For, cautious as I
       am apt
    to be - there was no
    complete exposure


  Lucky, thus, for
       me to
    have let the ice remain
    protective and cold


  Rather than have
       melted
    into you completely, and
    have naught left of me . . .



� Katherine E. Cline, January 1997
    
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