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# Frozen Promises
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/frozen-promises/
- Published: 2021-07-21T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-07-21T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: The cold rain threatens to freeze me into a popsicle I'm on a dark Brooklyn street halfway under a 1970 beaten up Pontiac station wagon dim flashlight beam scattering off its scarred underbelly trying to fix a sieve o...
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

The cold rain threatens to freeze me  
into a popsicle  
I'm on a dark Brooklyn street  
halfway under a 1970 beaten up Pontiac station wagon  
dim flashlight beam scattering off its scarred underbelly  
trying to fix a sieve of a radiator  
smell of antifreeze mixing with sleet and sweat  
jeans soaked to the bone and stiff with ice  
my winter raincoat smacking the bumper  
like a wet sail with every gust of needle wind  
fingers achy, bruised by repeated hand slips and curses  
torrents of ice cold water burn my back  
another turn of the screw on the clamp.  
There.  
She asks, business like, is it going to be long?  
No matter.  
She agreed to go skiing with me!

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**Author notes:** wc 119 A completely true story, and the she is my wife of 38 years https://allpoetry.com/contest/2783011-Breakdown--