Ascendant Face

                                                            

back then

Blue ice glacier

  stretches to Tasman sea

   truly touches salted waters.

Cherry colored moths

  plunge wings toward

   surf’s self mire

  dip down waiver

   as vapor rises

    saved insect bathers.

Frozen mass 

 receded through rain

   forest millennium

900 feet upslope

’til today

helicopter tourists

 in yellow sunglasses

         & 

blazing green parkas

 ice pick vacationeers  

  chisel away

   at Franz Josef’s 

    ascendant face.