Submission by Simone Inez Harriman

[Simone Harriman]

Dear Fabrizio,

Could you please replace the poem I submitted yesterday with this one.

FINAL VERSION:

WINTER

I am wading knee deep in snow

Frostbitten and blizzard blinded

I inhale, exhale home

To familiar solitary lifelessness 

Death, an uninvited guest has long left

Emptiness 

Winter, I exist

In a whiteout of profound loneliness 

Sad wolves are howling in the walls

And my soul wails mournfully

Winter, my heart is knee deep in snow 

Somewhere frozen in a glacial drift

A cold tempest blows into the abyss

There is no sign of the sun

Or where the snow will end

Winter, sadness is knee deep in snow

While I drown in your drift

Crushed with ice and shrouded 

With hailstones in my heart 

unpublished poem
Simone Inez Harriman