A Tumbleweed Leaf glides across the vastness field valley floor Bubbled Ice Currents sculpted stalagmite limestone that wrinkle this barren world. But the most amazing scene is the Ice Glass Lake clearer than the window of this logic. The lake is felted with snow. Cut, the ice heals back, heals black, the surface is burled and rough. In the clearing a cache of bright round rabbit droppings.
Woodpeckers reopen the trees.
Sap runs silently, more slowly than tears. Pine cones open in a bitter wind, dry wind off the brittle world now. II Litany of pines, plainsong, pine song. Afternoon of ice. Grandfather trees, Grandmothers, weather-fierce, pray for me, matins, noontime, Evensong.