Her fingers shrank in winter. The engagement ring slipped off as she scurried from car to door in the blizzard. A snow storm gathered in his frosty brow. In the morning her gloved hands pawed the ground for one diamond tear among millions. She could only wait for a thaw.

Sarah E. Morin has published two books, Waking Beauty and Rapunzel the Hairbrained. Sarah E. is a past Premier Poet of Poetry Society of Indiana, Secretary of Community Education Arts, and editor of The Polk Street Review. Visit her at sarahemorin.net.