Odo et Amo

by Zach Garwood

With an open window
to the freezing winter,
we fight battles in the bedroom
just to stay warm,
to break the monotony in two
and throw it into
the flames.

I would rather burn,
screaming in the heat
of anger, than
shiver with cold indifference.
I hate and I love.
Without one
there is not the other.
Without either
there is winter.


Notes
Poetry
Published in Windfall Vol. 28
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