Upon the platform, boots caked in black ice,
a cloying gesture, stand there on the salt.
I dare not stray, confess my only vice:
your hand, the key, my heart’s a sacred vault.
Entwined like flickering jewels upon the crown
we vanish like a vamp into the lake.
Snuffed flames against the waves we plummet down
and clutch the harbor’s edge until we ache.
We are treasure, we are rum run below,
a target for St. Valentine, I fear.
No god nor man can melt this falling snow
so twist, green river, push my lover near.
Steel and stone together rise from fire.
Crystals freeze the tears from my desire.
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Evan Schmidtt is a writer, creative director, and instructor working in Los Angeles and Nashville. She has a background in comedy from The Second City in Chicago and holds a BA in Writing and Producing for Television from Columbia College Chicago. Her lecture, "How to Write Female Characters," has been presented at Columbia University in New York.