By: Coleman Bomar
Skating
On his breath
Smooth
And knee scrapingly
Cold
The I Love Yous
Like Zambonis
Thicken over
A slick
Thesaurus of scars
As she carves
Ice
Like turkey
And suddenly summer
Is in the movies
But nowhere else
Coleman Bomar is a writer who currently resides in Middle Tennessee. His works have been featured by and/or are forthcoming in Drunk Monkeys, Plum Tree Tavern, Prometheus Dreaming, SOFTBLOW, Eunoia Review, Beyond Words, Bewildering Stories, Isacoustic, Moonpark Review, Maudlin House, Star 82 Review, Boston Literary Magazine, Nine Muses Poetry and more.
"Ice Pairs was created, in part, to abstractly describe the feeling of being gaslighted or manipulated, romantically or otherwise. It is also an attempted exploration of codependency. I wanted the language, imagery, and rhythm to be as coldly sharp as possible until the end when we hard switch to the idea of 'summer' as a remote unreal ideal. I wrote the poem late one night in a Waffle House after the ice water made my teeth ache."