In my armchair
Of ice and snow
Cozy and warm
In a place I adore
Gentle current
Beneath the ice
Downstream rumbles
Break the crust
And I am freed
Gentle current
Beneath the ice
Downstream rumbles
Break the crust
And I am freed
Moonglow breaks the darkness
While the stars take flight
In the cool blue of winter chill
But for the warmth of amber hearths
The first
Long
Draft
Is a
Deep
Breath
In
Attachments melt away
The mind quiets
Its obsessive
Narcissism
For a moment
Nothing else matters
But this
Single
Moment
Temperature
inversion,
a reversal of
the normal
behaviour
of temperature in the troposphere
(the region of the atmosphere nearest the Earth’s surface),
in which a layer of cool
air at the surface
is overlain by a layer of [hot]
warmer air.
(
Under
normal conditions
air temperature
usually decrease
s with height.
)
Draped on the mountain tops
Hung from the sky
A pinnacle
Breaks through
Black
Icy wind rips
Up the valley floor
Churning turquoise and obsidian
Beneath the placid azure
Of a witness sky
Waiting for the stars
But the ducks
Won’t have much longer
To paddle in open water