small ripple

     fabric

In tills which have been oriented by flowing water, fabric indicates the preferred orientation of the grains. Sedimentologists would refer to this as "imbrication."

         From the glacier glossary, http://ebeltz.net/glacier/glacglos.html


1. 
outward, small ripple
blue ice molecule in my heart
glaciates and grows, what will
this rill of molten blue
portend for my
once warm hea(r)t?

2. 

city too long, cement

fatigues me, until

all feeling wanes

a dull throb at limb

i remember i once lived

3.

glorious spangles sputter

into frozen butterflies

stalagtites shuttered

my core ablated, creaking

4. calving two automatons

where once i stood

turn-shifting in solid seas

casting a glacial surge 

cresting into the blue

glacial surge

A rapid forward movement of the snout of a glacier. Others describe it as rapid, wavelike downglacial ice movements which cause sudden advances of the ice margin.    From the glacier glossary, http://ebeltz.net/glacier/glacglos.html