Things shift.
Softened by sun
ice cracks and crashes
a natural pushing
good noisy hurt
this fracture of floes
this calving of ice.

It’s not spring
in this hemisphere, but
it’s spring somewhere
and flowers bloom
even by late autumn moonlight
and you have something to offer
as effortlessly as a magnolia
releases its fragrance
call it
November magnolia blooming

You’ve got something to give again
as effortlessly
as a river runs
call it
November water flowing