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StillLifeInIce

 The surface of a frozen sea is torn
 With rills and ridges, rimy building blocks
 Cast down at random by an architect
 Insane or angry, or too drunk to care
 About arranging his materials
 Into a semblance of an ordered room.
 Auror' play pastel beams on pale cliffs.
 Crevasses hide in shadow as the sun
 Scrapes the horizon. Silence shivers, stark.

 But from this flotsam of chaotic floes
 Twin icebergs nudge their crests into the air.
 Their domes ride diffidently, soft, scarce seen
 Amidst the snowy scarps. They slumber. Yet
 Beneath the jumbled and distressed terrain
 Inverted massifs hang, hidden and huge.
 Two giants veil their faces. No one knows
 The benthic currents pressing on their keels ---
 The forces that will stir their souls to wake.

 We are those icebergs, you and I. Great hearts
 Are snagged and smothered underneath the heaps
 Of daily happenstance ... tangled and trapped
 By this-and-that-ness piled upon our lives ...
 Held fast by icy manacles ... until
 One day --- crash! crack! --- the mountains move. Two minds
 Trembling together can free themselves. We sail
 South, to a proud and fearsome rendezvous:
 To melt into the ocean of the world.

TopicPoetry


(correlates: StirTheStonesToSong, PyramidPeaking, HopefulRejoinders, ...)