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Ice Pancake on the River Dee |
It’s happening everywhere
but first, on the River Dee
so cold that ice crystals
bump into each other and
Failing to dance nice, panic
forgetting the orderly steps
of Grandmother’s waltz
start banging each other
In a mosh of wayward currents
a pancake forms and moves
powerfully, begins to rotate
in a slow revolution of ice
A carousel of impending doom
a frozen lily pad, it orbits
consuming and gravid
as 100,000 frozen, clanging bells
copyright 2019
Viola
Weinberg |
