the sound of ice melting

colonnades of golden light
through the twilight of the forest
in the waning of the winter
stillness escalates to spring
crystalized froth calves into cascades
breaking free of frozen silence
the sound of ice melting
quickening in me

Hide and Seek

Incandescent orb shimmering
Melting snowcovered seascape of sky
Waves of lithe clouds swimming
Intermittently veil and revealing
Feminine contours of mountains
Modest confident majesty 

Enclosed inside my temperate auto

Slowly curving alongside the river

Silent for the wheels upon the road

I gaze soft focus through my windowpane

Entranced by the serene fluid stillness

Frozen, yet liquid, and vapor, and light

As sunlight escapes briefly

And illuminates the horizon

And then falls behind cover

And hides from me again