The Good Hurt

Photo by Jonathan Knepper on Unsplash

Come in from the snowfall and from the darkness,
when we let those starry dust petals
– as brilliant and unique as the strands
of our DNA, winding through us
– rest in the tangles of our hair
and soak into our top coats.

Come in
and run the numbness of your palms
below the faucet,
wishing warm water
was the lone…