THE WORLD A-MELTING

                  Ice caps melting
                  lightening their weight

        Tremors swarm
        awakening an
        arctic volcano

               Glaciers melting
                lightening their weight
                upon the earth

        Tremors swarm
        near a sleeping volcano
        near this equator

One Sunday long ere the dawn
I awaken
& as I sink towards dreams
again
I feel the world softly rolling
rolling …

                Ice caps melting
                & cleaving

        Tremors swarm
        in the
        Drake Passage …