when the roads were black with ice my solar plexus ached with that absence
white knuckles on the wheel the driving force behind reawakened will
help me will. i’m cold as a stone madonna with a chipped face, out there
Benedette Palazzola has published free verse and her own version of haiku in Hanging Loose, POEM, Jewish Literary Journal, Come and Go Literary, Bonsai, Ariel Chart, and elsewhere.