As a Child
       

       As a child,
       in a cold house,
       she taught herself piano;
       this, an excuse      
       to toe dangle 
       above the lone heat register.
       Her music is warm.
       It beats to the rhythm 
       of expanding pipes;
       her posture cool-
       a chilly silhouette
       in frosted glass.



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