A Fever-Inducing Snow Queen Poem by Margaret Alice

Allergy is a fever-inducing Snow Queen, when the
Snow Queen takes me in her crushing embrace of
freeze-burn, my head overheats while the rest of
me freezes down to my feet

A sharpened ice shard cleaves my heart and all love
and happiness flow away instantly, a glass partition
springs up between me and the rest of humanity
if I don’t start a food regime

The glass partition thickens, then grows opaque,
my eyes go out of focus and I lose all perspective,
my ears are compressed in a vine press until the
shrilling of cicadas is all I hear

I run and hide from the Snow Queen by eating food
that should make me impervious to the ice shards
she is shooting at me, but increased stress levels at
Kingsley made me seek comfort food

With the result that the Snow Queen locked me up in
her frozen palace with ice shards cleaving my heart,
I am losing awareness of freedom of choice and all
consciousness, turning into an ice block myself

My head is burning while my heart’s growing
colder and colder...