my half-life got extended
but only on condition
of winter        
        and I walk out
in snow winds of it to learn
a word I would not find at
the apartment
                          that would have
a blurry meaning indoors

 

and I creak home through half-light
and winds that have gone to vamp
in cut time
        needing to save
the raw word to the winter
of a page before it can
turn wet and run
                          so meeting
the condition of half-time