Scott Simpson · Poetry
The Blizzard Retreat
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Source page 75
The Blizzard Retreat
We came for reflection, not
survival, but the wind had other plans.
Snow erased the paths we meant
to follow, so we stayed in, clutched
mugs, circled up, watched as the roads
disappeared and the hills
buried themselves.
It was over 40 below, and still we kept
warm, not by fire, but by waiting—
by choosing not to push.
And something melted in us
long before the snow ever did.
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