Gone

My warmest clothes layered

my skin just like the

sheets of ice I stare at.

I see waves of fog

roll from beneath my lips

From the Alaskan air

Or the chill of anticipation

Surrounded by frost

Everything is blue

Blue sky, marred only by the passing clouds

Blue water, so clear it reveals the truth

Blue ice, stretching for miles

I see in blue

First the sound echoes from within

Loud and sharp

Deep and clear

Fissures created

Fracturing my distorted view

So the water beneath is reflected in my eyes

Then comes the crash

One giant cascade

Breaking away

Just like that

Gone

Have you ever seen something

So shocking?

So moving?

My breath was lost with the ice

But when the wave came

To rock the steady surface beneath us

It was a reminder

Of the world we are losing

Right before this, a giant slab of ice had fallen. We caught the end of it on video