An Email Put Off

When you haven't spoken to someone
When you haven't spoken
When,
in ages
From a young age,
you learn to speak
to other people.
Speak to someone.
Today I did,
(ok, I wrote, forgive)
and it made everything seem
covered in snow.

I wrote to someone today.
I was covered in snow.
It was on my hair and on my coat.
In my mouth, it tasted like relief.

Forgetting other people are
as equal as every day in your life is
is forgivable.
Remembering is
waking to a world covered in snow:
so new, clean, and, when you fall
all muffled.

CDL