Meltwater (MP3)
By Dennis Hayes
Inspiration piece
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Chameleon Ice
(a response to “Meltwater” by Dennis Hayes)
Chameleon ice in flocks of comets falling spread its wings into oceans
Chameleon ice is building terraces now in the bends of black streams
Chameleon ice is breathing futuristic maps onto the gaze of childhood
Chameleon ice draws creaking diagrams of its disintegration-forest
Chameleon ice collects the colorless honey of space in its lattices
Chameleon ice rises through nightwater as death ascends through life
Chameleon ice preserves the fractals of waves as stochastic sculpture
Chameleon ice rings tiny bells in prayer to gravity as it lets itself go
Chameleon ice at sunrise rosy as mackerel gills in a sloping steel tray
Chameleon ice tumbling in a shower of garnets from frozen carcasses
Chameleon ice pink shards under the swirling jingling light of money
Chameleon ice flicks its billion cloudy tongues to trap steel mosquitoes
Chameleon ice the flowstone heaven of belugas echoing their song
Chameleon ice at the pole pulling itself together smaller each winter
Chameleon ice the ever reborn toxin-archive of our heedless ingenuity
Chameleon ice crawls over itself a horde of dragons racing to the sea
Adam Cornford