the coming ice age
mastondons sealed in freezer bags
shags of ice
winter-coating and repeating
eating the day
longtooth, bearjaw
comes it once
comes it again
polarizing, paralyzing
the old encroachment on
aurora borealis
of boring analysis
digging in the cold discovers us
no flesh
(loss of meaning being
the meaning of loss)
just clear plastic wrappers
with freeze-dried guts
what we got hell for
people
is the capability
to bleed on skates
death an axis
round which rotates
the planet self
© 1990 by Beth Stevens
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