Overnight frost

A haiku

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overnight frost — the silence of a double bed

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Overnight, the cold leaves its trace without sound, settling into corners and surfaces unnoticed. Morning reveals not absence, but a hush shaped by shared space — where warmth once shifted and now does not. The bed holds that stillness carefully, a quiet agreement between bodies and weather, where silence feels less empty than preserved.

First published on NaHaiWriMo.

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