Abominable
Fractured words
split by this
icy tongue
send chills
from my lips
to freeze,
but you
cautiously kindle
bitter twigs
beneath me,
thawing every
frozen bone
in my body.
Defrosted thoughts
surface to my
mind in a swarm:
I did not know
I could
feel this warm.
Alyssa Troy is an English teacher in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. She has a B.A. in English and Secondary Education from Rider University, an M.Ed. in Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment from Cabrini University, and an M. Ed. in Reading from Eastern University. She will be featured in an upcoming issue by the Blue Unicorn journal, and her first book, Transfiguration, was self-published in 2020.
