The dirty light of morning
seeps through my bedroom window
creeping in
from the
very bottom of the night

I kick my way to the outskirts of my sheets,
seeking comfort where the cotton is cold,
eager for the asylum of ice,
the crisp reminder,
of something new.

VA’s work has appeared in Writing in a Woman’s Voice, The Lake, Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine, 34^th Parallel Magazine, and OJA & L Magazine. She has poems and short stories forthcoming in Ignatian Literary Magazine, Sad Girls Literary Magazine, and Ginosko Literary Journal. You can find her on Instagram at @vawiswell and http://www.vawiswell.com.