By calypso
Date: 2007 Mar 10
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Black Ice

night blindness fades
as reality creeps
up my backbone
I understand .. you
were standing on a
thin sheet of black ice

forever balancing, now

you are far away
I cradle brittle
white branches
a lone coyote howls
and your silhouette hovers
against a cold black sky