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MUSED Literary Magazine.
Poetry

Winter Storm

Jeff Burt

You cupped one hand
to the halved candle,
an opening parenthesis
to the wavering flame,
wick floundering in wax,
your other hand extended
to a hallway wall
seemingly closing in,
the opposing parenthesis
before the day’s last breath
drawn by you in light
and spent in darkness.