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Vicki Feaver
SNOW QUEEN
SNOW QUEEN
SNOW QUEEN
I’d melt in your houses.I hide in blue shadows –
appearing only at night:
a bride in a glittering veil,
pale and shining
as if lit from inside.
You offer me a snowman:
a frozen dummy
with eyes of coal.
But I want a husband
with a heart in my bed,
who’ll lie with me
where the snow’s blown
layer on layer like petals,
drifting to sleep in a heat
like hot sand, like ashes,
the water in his blood
turning to crystals of ice.
© 2012, Vicki Feaver
From: Like a Fiend Hid in a Cloud
Publisher: Jonathan Cape, London
From: Like a Fiend Hid in a Cloud
Publisher: Jonathan Cape, London
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SNOW QUEEN
I’d melt in your houses.I hide in blue shadows –
appearing only at night:
a bride in a glittering veil,
pale and shining
as if lit from inside.
You offer me a snowman:
a frozen dummy
with eyes of coal.
But I want a husband
with a heart in my bed,
who’ll lie with me
where the snow’s blown
layer on layer like petals,
drifting to sleep in a heat
like hot sand, like ashes,
the water in his blood
turning to crystals of ice.
From: Like a Fiend Hid in a Cloud
SNOW QUEEN
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