Erosion
two poems
Erosion
car door clicks shut tears pause regardless of agonizing delay frozen 'scape confirms current state yet we have thawed out from years on the coast. centuries carved, glacier remains curved stripes of navy blue and ancient grey. your face a thousand stones formed above mountain top. eyes sharp mirrored emotion loosens grip in separation anger riddles, riddles deep you stay. beckon beneath insanity exhales heavy near my ear the self dissolves nothing to compare stripped bare erosion. now shaped in strength peaks grin with crinkled teeth moments subside, intended relief you reflect me a reluctant belief share the same bread at the latest hour walk with different heads realize our power. ******* Erosion Tops of peaks like jagged teeth, as time grinds against stone Ice long thawed a forgotten sheath becoming fluid with marble bone Centuries pass and I recognize each groove a familiar wound Smoothing each crevice I agonize, so many times I have ruined Sunlight reflects the shimmer long unnoticed before I find Dusty shadows cast as dimmer and particles cling before they bind Magnetic force never seizes I learn fear has special taste Despite gravity it releases and I succumb without my face Undo time and there is nothing gone an empty plain of thought Morning passes without dawn our souls forever caught Cycles turn to separation and connection appears when stripped Love turns to declaration after wind has vastly whipped Reflections appear in glacier melt too frigid to fully soften Resistance is still felt when dormant, not to be forgotten
Southwest Yukon, Kluane Ranges, September 18 2016
I loved how you use the glacier landscape and “erosion” as a metaphor for tension, vulnerability, and the strength that remains when two people go through separation without leaving each other.
Amazing! I'm tired of winter, but the open, cold spaces and conflicting emotions always lure me to your poetry.