Stone to Ice
Haworth Hodgkinson
This could be snow
flaking from red larches.
It is ice
bound to stone.
You could find skylarks;
crocuses.
You find stone
cold as ice.
There could be blue skies,
sun-fired red rock.
There is ice,
splintered stone.
Leaves have fallen
on still water.
Stone to ice.
Ice to stone.
Written 2005
Revised 2006
Published in Pushing
Out the Boat Issue 6, 2007
(Pushing Out the Boat)
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