Ninkasi

EMBEDDED WHIMS

Porcelain needles prick my jawline

frisking the conifers

 

I drown on icicles

my faith capering on sunlit sticks in transparency

 

cerulean enigma envelops coffee mugs

lazing on beds of snowy shimmers

 

dewy droplets embower my cafe Alaskan

bejeweled stars stitched on roofs of passion-