Melting Pool by Susan Tepper

In the snow your hair
scrubs clean
Ice runs down 
into a melting pool
You might die 
from severe trauma
Can a person
survive such extremes
of no consequence

Susan Tepper is the author of nine published books of fiction and poetry. Her most current are a poetry chap CONFESS (Cervena Barva Press, 2020) and a funky road novel WHAT DRIVES MEN (Wilderness House Press, 2019).  Currently she is in pre-production of a play she adapted from an earlier novel about artist Jackson Pollock in his later years. www.susantepper.com