cavity

I found a cavity
this cold, gray day in Dallas
shopping in warmth
among pretty fruits and flowers
feeling like a bulimic in a candy store
You were my filling just a while ago
but now dissolved into cold and winter
And I, just walking through the doors
I think of leaving the pretty store soon

I bought orange roses
at least 2 dozen
Thinking if I couldn't be warm,
I could share warmth
There is to be summer and berry salad
at a ladies to-do tomorrow
Pondering how flannel & denim
comforts cowboys & skaters
I choose a poppy seed dressing with honey
and stand in line

fingers chill and chafe while I clumsily pay
and decide the price is too high to tell others
I check my phone, praying you've called
solidified again
but there's no ghost of you
except this hammered silver ring on my finger
and the cavity I found today