Tick Drips

Tock Drops

Patiently

Frozen water from millennia past

feels the breath from long days of light

and the licking of the warmer ocean

as it floats

glowing patiently

encapsulated by fog obscured mountains

floating patiently

with marks and angular scars and pitted surface, exposing a different time and place

until its balance is changed

cracking and groaning and rolling

and from the eruption of surging splash

exposes another time,

carried by currents and wind and stillness

waiting patiently

as the lapping of the clear blue sea

sculpts new angular scars – a new plimsoll line of equilibrium

where radiance suspends

above the fulcrum of reflection

and slowly melts

patiently

Tick Drip

Tock Drop.

by Julie Stephenson