Syllabics

The sun made new again
Shadows of ice
As vertebra cut through.

Beauty unlike a blown
Glass bird, patterns
Of fluted beads—instead

Silt or sand, or something
Fractured. A plain
Of grit, a sediment.

From the forest the wind
Had utterly
Transformed, a small nest thrown

Into the path intact—
Moose hair and moss.
In their blue and distant

Taper, you hold in poise
Mountains: upon
Stone upon stone.

by Joan Kane