the lake set thick

winter's irrevocable bone,

the moon's floodlit interment

frozen feet deep.

from whose bottom she

figure skates.

her blades carving maneuvers that

illustrate the unabating turnings,

of an upside down world made upright.

watery blue mirrors paling before her--

her hair let fall, bound in bunches, directs

the violence of her elegant abstractions.