8


Parts hazy or insecure
What is a screen memory
And how different from what you are told
Was so?

Imagine a field flooded and iced
No action as dangerous as skating
But the pleasures of walking and breaking

The ice bubbled, cracked and refrozen
Filthy with mud and grasses
Sheets of it covering the fields
Is this

Real or a trick? The ice
Fractures, cold dark fluid under
Welling up and recovering.
It freezes

Then vanishes
The next day.