Siege

the world is still

air and taut sky

the blue of frostbite

a thin winter rain

liquid seized

into crystals

a solute settled out

atop frozen soil

amid puddles hardening

into milky slates of glass

silence layers itself

deep and deeper

what icy promise

could these days hide

and when and how

could we hasten the thaw

written by Anne McCrady

NEWSLINK: IndieWire, CBS, Wikipedia, NYTimes

AUDIOLINK: SoundCloud

Poet with a Press Pass is a series of news-related poems written by Anne McCrady and posted by InSpiritry.