1
world’s on the way
to ice tonight
but the river
will not stand for it.
cold as the city is
in january, light
it sheds still
dances on living water.
snow tonight, snow
tomorrow. river
takes it in, flows
as every river flows
to an ocean
that drinks them in,
drinks them in, drinks them all
in, but does not overflow.
2
flag frozen half mast
in a state of endless sorrow,
sacrament of a thousand year reign
of mourning, ice
unmoved by the great wind
still stirring new snow.
