"Crossing Antarctica: How the Confusion Began
and Where Do We Go From Here"—ExplorersWeb, January 9, 2019
ice ice ice
solo man
sastrugi beat your heart
the sled your life
up and over
ridge and trough
sky and ice
meld to white
muscles only
read the miles
ridge and trough
ice shelf sings
arctic sleep
frigid fingers flex
grip the dream
twenty-five below
up and over
ridge and trough
why why why
solo man
in deep flow state
sastrugi beat
the losing ice
yield to frozen heart
Fran Davis writes a column for Coastal View News in California. Her work has been published in TheNewVerse.News, travel books, periodicals and numerous print and online journals.