Marks left by meltwater and the awareness that traced them become coextensive in the space where all prior separations have diffused beyond recovery.
“Does the ice recall the fleeting rivers that cut valleys in its absence, its vast patience cradling each thaw until stars shift the pole once more and silence reclaims the land?”
“Ice waits through unnumbered thaws its patience unbroken while fires rise and fade and stars trade their stations in the dark”
“Obsidian cooled in the moment the constellations drifted from their old stations freeing the land from ice that had stood since before any memory formed in bone.”
“Shells lodged in cliff stone still recall seas that climbed when fixed lights above traded stations and ice withdrew from valleys it had gripped across countless turns.”