Ice
Black ice–Careens careers.
Cripples spines.
Mimics blindspots.
Blindsides.
Trips one up
To hear one scream.
*
Ice is cold.
Can store up sores
for scores,
old.
Lovers may want to chisel at it…
With warmth and fire wiggle at it.
Melt it down…
Forgiveness
Kindness
Could soften this…
Stone.
Cold.
50 words abstract brevity
“My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, As the channel of brooks that pass away; Which are black by reason of the ice, And wherein the snow hideth itself: What time they wax warm, they vanish; When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.The caravans that travel by the way of them turn aside; They go up into the waste, and perish.” Job 6:15-18.
*My own brothers have been as treacherous as a winter stream,
Like the water of winter streams that dry up.
They are darkened by ice,
And in them the melting snow is hidden.
But in due season they become waterless and come to an end;
When it becomes hot, they dry up.
Their course is diverted;
They flow into the desert and vanish.” Job 6:15-18:
ITH & SB 