It must have been 45 degrees in your basement bedroom some nights.
We’d burrow under the covers with our piles of clothes still on
and huddle together shivering
breathing as hot as possible into each other’s necks
trying to avoid grazing our freezing fingers, toes, and noses
until our bodies created a pocket of warmth under the bedclothes
and we’d shed quickly
finally touching and sweating together in our nakedness
until we’d throw off the blankets
gasping in the cold winter air.
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