Under ice we breathe in shrunken sentences, locked in by the firn dome overhead moving through our white sleep like a clock’s hour hand. Here we are safe from the eagle’s perfect hands, from the wild she-bear of our legends. Still our young— vibrating, hearts hot as suns— complain of boulders on their backs, and search for some mythical crevasse to the surface.
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