The Moment

Step outside
and smell the cold
a sugary pendant in each nostril...
and the billion stars
like ice pins in a liquorice sky.
Breathe the silence and
enjoy its brittle velvet,
just in case tomorrow
all is unzipped and showy shards


swift as starlings
unsettle what you know

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