In A Faux Rabbit Fur Coat

at the bus stop

in polystyrene shivering

your cold hand in mine

painted nails

pink neon frost

the color of the sunrise

that spread over

the whole sky that morning

when we were waiting

winter came,

and took you away,

and turned you to snow,

and you fell everywhere

over everything.

and now you are nowhere

Elisa Carlsen - @iamrabbitnow - is a queer poet from Nevada. Their writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Trumpeter, Cirque, Anti-Heroin Chic, Brushfire, and elsewhere. Nominated for the Pushcart and Best of the Net, Elisa is the author of Cormorant, a poetry collection addressing the human dimensions of salmon recovery in Oregon.