My black gloves, coat, boots Make me thick and heavy and slow I am trudging through this white brick wall I am tired and dripping. This snow is ungainly As it piles on top of the dead Black, are the silhouettes of branches on drooping trees
Car crash. Car crash. Car crash. I had forgotten that snow makes death unforgotten. I am a beacon of safety Inside my warm hut With my life and my body, attached still.
Snow, sky, same thing. Both a shocking white, The color of the white light Of death, reflected in a black lake Swallowing everything else whole. An insulting shade of pale, Unimaginable in the middle of November.
A white bleached ivory Your knuckles are that color white, Bloodless As they grip the wheel But your fingertips forget how to drive Your mind loses all the knowledge You have gathered over your twenty three years
Your secure little buggy Is no longer secure No longer out of harm’s way. The permafrost inching its way under your wheels You are a little child learning how to walk, Slipping and falling, Reaching for your mama
You really don’t want to go over there REALLY don’t want to go over there. Because over there is the ditch. And you scream “NO NO NO NO NO NO NO” But who are you yelling at? No one can hear you. You’re all alone in your little buggy And the snow muffles you anyway
And you are upside down god is grabbing you by your ankles and shaking you Hoping for money to fall out of your pocket And then you’re right side up And then upside down And your brain is sloshing and slopping All over the upholstery
And the red is all over the windows Thick paint, splashed over the cracked panes Your hands are covered in your own gore Gushing from your thighs and stomach And you are making so much noise Why are you yelling? No one can hear you.
And now you’re dead. The air in your punctured lungs is frozen. The blood on the window is turning rusty red crust And the people in the little buggies next to you Are watching you as they pass by Some even fold their hands and pray But they shouldn’t take their hands off the wheel.