Ice bleeds to water in lukewarm air As timeless crystal lattices collapse Into perpetually formless jumbles
You take a pick to the lakebed Slash shaves of ice from their atomic ******* Grit chattering teeth against slicing cold To brush frosted life beneath its shell
Exhale vaporous dawnlit dragon-breath There is no sweat on your icicle skin Help our furnace-star do its nuclear work In time for rite of spring
The soul floats a sub-arctic berg Incongruously bobbing ever onwards While hypothermia licks at the fingertips Between your edges and the warming waves