Fragments

Frost

I lost you

 until I forgot.

 I told myself that the ice broke. 

 But it's winter again.

 The frost lays siege. 

Its fingers 

Coming for me 

through the windows 

under the doors

 through the drafts.

 It bears down onto my small house

 In the night.

 In the sheets.

 In the shower.

 As the silence deafens, 

and the frost closes in, 

I learn how the eldritch terrors were born. 

In the night. 

In the frost.

 In the dark recesses of the mind. 

 Smiling down upon us as we mourn.