Tethered Floe

scantily clad—

amidst the direst of conditions—

as dead heats flare

an ice-bled blush—

pinks, whites and lavenders—

erupting loose the triaged carousel

once tousled, vain and empty,

now similar basins sting in stirred

repeals of fluidity

as drains of hopeful restitution watch,

enlightened glaziers form the ringlet’s pond—

though terse, respectful still—

of that which the flowered petal’s stem

has to offer

a variance of interpretations,

emboss the torn glimmer’s

layered tiers—caressing

intermingled pools—

rainbow flavored flooding

displaced by streams

of glacial floe

append the scansions

of latticework—

once built upon

tethered spines

of dreams

unfiltered