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

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.

    

Imunuri prompt: Elemental - Glacier

scribe an offering 
inspired by the element of water, ice, glacier

what moves you, what moves you SLOWLY, what sticks, and what anchors you deep below? what, if melted, would jeopardize cataclysmic flood? write glacier.



Tags: glacier, epic-earth, poem, <poet's moniker>

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Epic-Earth on Imunuri: An ongoing series of earth-related prompts as part of an Imunuri experiment to dwell repeatedly on a theme and its riffs, and/or the possible poetry challenge, bit by bit, of producing an epic or body of poems...

Image source: Wikimedia Commons, Guttorm Flatabø, 2009, CC2- A Subglacial pond in the glacier cave beneath  the Nigardsbreen glacier  — Jostedalsbreen, Luster, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway.

[Poet-note: I know, this is the time of spring's budding, more conflagration than glacier, so poets, you can continue to burn brightly if it feels better for the season. Think, too, though, of our kin far south, feeling the burn of cold as season turns towards winter, and consider, one time or another, glacier...]