Second Winter
Rent from DeepDyve- Second Winter
learn how to take care of your bodythe strings of yourselfthere is nothing like driving in the first snowwhen the heat in your car starts working againlearn god works in mysterious wayslike the heat in your car starts working againgod works in the strings of yourselflearn god works inthe sadness and the coldand this quickly becomesthe oldest winter of your lifestrings of yourself and losing themyou had not lost them since you found themuntil now god works andyou see both old love in the same snowyou blame everything on godyou blame everything on godand still love the neighboryou blame everything on godand fall in love with the freezingstrings of yourselfyour voice only comes to you in the grocery storeor drivingyou learn how to take care of your bodywait to be warm againagain you blame everything on godeverything again ongod everything onforgetting forgetting forgetting [End Page 38]
Margaret Yapp is a volunteer facilitator at Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota. She lives and works in Minneapolis. Her poems and essays have appeared in the Tishman Review, Rogue Agent, Midwestern Gothic, and elsewhere.
