Lorna Crozier
(1948)
Excellence In The Small.
Tears Frozen On Your Face.
Winter: eat the little, talk a lot --
that's magpie's definition.
Tears freeze on the cheeks and
never fall. This is cold, not sadness.
Somewhere warmer, Vallejo said
we must learn
a different way of weeping. For now,
the old way will have to do.
