Past imperfect: present impossible.
1.Cold seeps through boneshoar frost crunches, the land sleepsand so do we;you lie there dreamingof an Italian sea, a girl you lovedand what of me?……………..2.Trees sentinel dead with winterice seeping in their veinswinter’s caught beneath my skinheart cold and silent.You returned in dead of winterseeking warmth: something you understooda familiar heart to stalk, without thoughtI let you in.……………3.Grass bright with icedog sniffs frozen windcan’t find a scent to follownor can I.……………