[wax poetic]
Winter's celestial ceiling is an ethereal maw waiting to swallow the earth, the stars circling through the vacuum like vultures; stepping outside into the moon's recycled sunlight, I feel the warmth slipped off my skin by the infinite obsidian sky above my head. I sip the night's frigid air, and my lungs burn; my bones ache against gravity as I'm pulled by the plutonian magnetism of outer space: I grip your hand even tighter.