Mike Dillon
Touch of Cold
"It's cold in here," she said.
"Some malignancy is moving this way."
And so, I awoke from the dream of life.
"Then let's leave," I snapped.
We stepped out of the abandoned cabin
into the sunlit world of white hawthorn,
mottled cedar shade,
the bright chippings of sparrows.
The world I cling to.
The world that holds some secret
emerged from some secret deeper down.
The world I walk through gazing at flowers.
Bio
Mike Dillon lives in Indianola, Washington, a small town on Puget Sound northwest of Seattle. His most recent book is a chapbook, "The Return," from Finishing Line Press (March 2021). He is a previous contributor to Shot Glass Journal.