Thaw Materials

Former ice has a career waiting
in water. Lake, drink, displacement,
and fog; frozen bogs free their logs
and the reeds a sip, letting their impulses
flow as their flowers find the sun. Speaking
of heat sources, beaten courses sound like
rivers when water streams along this just-
made bed. Call it sleeping, if getting closer
to the earth is the same as lying with eyes
closed and mind seeking pooling rest.