by Claire Beynon (b. 1960)

Thin Ice
Language: English 
Step
out
onto
white
not
as
a
body
bearing
any
weight
but
as
a
feather
might
think
of
ink
in
a
quill
drawing
a
cantata
out
of
light.

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