9/03/09 Patricia A. Hawkenson’s Reflections
Sweater Weather
I feel the void of everything
and the sky mimics my soul,
blue and vacant,
and I am one with it.
Then a vapor trail
slicing the empty sky
fills the nothingness
with a cloud not made from God.
I see the plane fly over
lifting you to a new place.
The crack in the sky grows bigger
and I begin to sob.
It is cold enough to change
exhaustion into ice.
I can breathe it here on earth
and cry till I feel empty.

















September 4th, 2009 at 6:16 pm
Nice… the description of a crack in the sky really hit me for some reason. The title reminds me not of coldness or winter, but of how sometimes you just need to wrap yourself up in your favorite article of warm clothing just for comfort…