sometimes, you can taste the temperature on your tongue.
winter feels like mint, even though mint is a late-spring mid-autumn sort of plant;
its shoots are too delicate for the December cold. it leaves a chill behind once consumed,
like an apology. a compromise. open your mouth and you can
catch snowflakes against your teeth. did you know that dry ice can burn?
it’s so cold it incinerates the skin it touches. mint is that edge between January and February,
the line between creeping frost and warming soil, cold enough that it scorches the roof of your mouth a little.
some apology.
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