and i swore the snow was sand and it tore me apart and i lay crippled bleeding crimson and ice

into frozen beach craving the end and his skin burned the snow like the sunburn to my skin and

i saw him draped in black and i saw my feet scrape the sand and my hands rip the clothes from

him as he tore mine from my being and i saw our skin burning the beach steam rising and then i

remembered it was snow and i had only dreamt the fever after all