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Kimiko Karpoff - Ice melt
Deep Winter Ice undoubtedly feels itself to be
solid and cohesive Holding through even the Sunny
days of Winter Noting without concern
the water flowing beneath ....
Deep Winter Ice .... Looks like it will hold us
when we step onto it And for a moment This is true
And then there becomes a time When our steps
must become cautious and we hang back
The Ice itself notices The thinness That it is feeling
The way that water moving beneath them feels
swifter and Less languid more urgent .... And that Sun
While welcomed by the birds that are singing now
And the trees that are somehow crackling Is making
The ice also crack Crack apart crack open
The thin places breaking Washing away .... ....
I wonder how that is To be the Ice
I wonder if the Ice Understands that it is simply part
of the River And in a moment held by circumstance
And then released .... .... I watch the shifting of the Ice
on the River And feel its flow clunky still .... Will that Ice make
a journey to a more open space or will it simply Become
River before it gets there And even as I imagine that expanse
of Water in my mind's eye I realize That Ice or Water
The River Has opened itself To this new horizon .... ....
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