the tundra is melting : the permafrost is slipping ………Ring-a-round a rosie, its icy handcuffs : prisoners once confined now riot ……….A pocket full of posies, for early release : bacteria by the billions : a gravid ………Ashes! Ashes! fury : pestis unbound : southbound : bound for glory ………We all fall down. Advertisements

all going is lost; facades split incognito hearts and silence becomes the ladder that flees as rivers divide tree-crusted banks into landscapes of water & earth and & earth again; only currents touch the separation with the intimacy of a circle seeking to embrace its empty center