thawing
raze the sun saw
fit to soften
most of what
white there was
still threaded
through soil
and sward.

here, the shape
of some strange
swan or dabbling
duck has been cut
into a carpet of
crystals caught in
a slow dissolve.

when this too
is taken, will
its thawing be
another way of
taking flight?
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what's it to you?
who go
blather
from