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How Cold is Cold?
Cold is when the floor tiles
freeze your toes
when you get into bed
and the only part of your
head exposed is your nose
when a fur coat and hood
and lined boots,
gloves and earmuffs
can’t warm you enough
when the central heating
is on high and you’re still freezing
and when the down comforter
feels like a flimsy summer sheet
when your mouth speaks vapour
and your dreams are full of
abominable snowmen chasing you
and icicles that grip like tentacles
this is the weather around the Mediterranean
where temperatures rarely go below zero
but our body thermometers
are so well adjusted to the swelter of summer,
that winter has turned into a icy torturer
© 3.2012 Helen Bar-Lev
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