“Mornings persist in fire and ice” by Meg Freer
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Mornings persist in fire and ice
By Meg Freer
after dreams of deep valley recipes
shaped and baked over a billion years
visions of mountains that serve up
plates of crust and ice and wind
flakes of rock that flow
outward across sheets of ice
air bubbles, ash from volcanoes and fires
pebbles and diamonds in rocky gorges
lakes that sculpt basins, sheer winds that tug
shorelines into crescent moons
until moss tufts on every hill pluck time
from stones in a realm of falling snow.
Copyright ยฉ Meg Freer
Meg Freer works in the arts in Kingston, Ontario. She holds music degrees and a Graduate Certificate in Creative Writing and has published four poetry chapbooks. She belongs to The Ontario Poetry Society and the League of Canadian Poets, is Poetry Co-editor for The Sunlight Press, and a Contributing Editor for Traces Journal. She was 2024-25 Poet-in-Residence for the McDonald Astroparticle Physics Institute (Queenโs University). Her debut poetry collection is forthcoming (DarkWinter Press).
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