Melting Iceberg
It’s no good looking
at a shooting star
with a fly trapped in your eye. You hear
the yawn above the skin tide
mewling and popping like a calved whale
while you spell out the words:
mastodon, sabre-toothed tiger, giant bear.
But this is mammoth, humungous, too
enormous to contemplate – at times
quiet, sometimes mute. You stare
through the classroom window, watch
the dust as white space
slides from frame to frame.
Alison Lock’s writing connects an inner world with a love of nature through poetry and prose. Her work has been published in many literary magazines, and broadcast on BBC Radio 3. Her latest poetry collection is Unfurling (2022) Palewell Press. Twitter: @alilock4 Website: www.alisonlock.com