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Sarah Kennedy's avatar

Title: Not even the sun can come between us.

Your wet scarf now chills my neck. The last of you drips down my chest; I hope it never dries.

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C.A. Wynn's avatar

The Warmth of Your Touch

They told me, “Hands that build can also tear down.” That didn't matter to me. I loved you anyway.

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Ani Banerjee's avatar

Her First Snowman

His button eyes, her buttonless sweater. Sitting in Mom's car, she cried for her snowman, alone in the cold darkness.

This is actually CNF, my 2 year old daughter, 1988. We were eating dinner out, but she was bawling for Frosty.

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Saad Ali's avatar

Lovely!

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Scott MacLeod's avatar

Cuffing Season

If your young’un shows telltale frostbitten lips of snowman canoodling, don’t fret, the affair surely will be over by springtime.

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Roopa Raveendra's avatar

Title: A safe love story

She practiced safe love by kissing the same snowman with button eyes every year until the sun came out.

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Karen Walker's avatar

Title: He was packing snow

Button it, Sis! No "the sun is shining". Get me—sob—a tissue. Drip. I know: what'd I expect? Sob.

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Mike Freveletti's avatar

DIARY OF A VICTORIAN SNOWMAN

Cold no more. She stumbled from the pub, and didn't see me. I broke her fall. She ate my carrot.

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Pamela Pescosolido's avatar

“The love of creation for its maker”

He gazed at his creator, adoration burning through eyes of coal, yearning to feel the touch of her gloved hands.

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Louella Lester's avatar

Just Before Spring Thaw

She saw his carrot nose was pointing toward someone else, but still she clung on, smothering him until he disappeared.

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Susan Israel's avatar

Mr Right Is A Cold Sonofabitch

He’s happy, his button eyes bright, stick arms extended. I tell him my secrets. Then the damn sun melts him.

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Tracey Coveart's avatar

Snow Blind

He lost his eyes to sunshine; his smile to chipmunk cheeks. A rabbit stole his nose. Expressionless, I loved him.

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Patricia Pease's avatar

My Grateful Heart

Although, I’m a man made of snow, I cherish you. My heart is melting because you have given me warmth.

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Jesse Bradley-Amore's avatar

Is It Casual Now?

I pour your pina colada all over my chest; feeling your tongue is worth dying for.

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Saad Ali's avatar

An Archetype of a Yuki-onna (“Snowwoman”), more like

At an iota of eros, Y. would ‘drip’ drip! A disillusioned rarity – conscious of the distinction betw. Love ‘n libido.

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Moira Gee's avatar

It's the journey that counts when you're in love with a snow woman on a red seat on a rail platform

Her orange ticket meant I could warm her on the train. My heart, her body, melted. A carrot for tea.

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Dave Alcock's avatar

Man in the Snow

Body. Head. Coal-eyes. Carrot-nose. Big as her. Still and steadfast. She'd made him up. Just like all of the others.

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