{"id":1825,"date":"2008-12-23T15:15:53","date_gmt":"2008-12-23T23:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/?p=1825"},"modified":"2011-01-19T17:12:03","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T01:12:03","slug":"the-poetry-of-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/the-poetry-of-ice\/","title":{"rendered":"The poetry of ice"},"content":{"rendered":"

This Christmas might be the first white Christmas for all of Canada since 1971. \u00a0 To celebrate, I’d like to point you to my friend Jeremy Hiebert’s stunning collection of photos of ice<\/a> from Lake Okanagan. \u00a0 This is not a photo collection, it is a poem of the highest order. \u00a0 Sit still and watch the slideshow fill your eyes with the wonder of this earth.<\/p>\n

And to accent it here is a poem from me, using the wonderful language of ice:<\/a><\/p>\n

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Crawl to the edge of the fast ice<\/p>\n

where the ice front holds still<\/p>\n

as the pancakes form up.<\/p>\n

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Not from the breakdown of nilas or ice rind<\/p>\n

this pancake forms under the swell that tossess<\/p>\n

slush ice, shuga and grease around in the bay.<\/p>\n

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This morning a lump of anchor ice rose<\/p>\n

honeycombed and rotten and washed ashore<\/p>\n

stranded on the beach.<\/p>\n

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Out in the open sea, ice sky glistens<\/p>\n

with ice blink where the multiyear floes<\/p>\n

nip each other, calve and tumble and raft.<\/p>\n

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crowding the polynya with brash<\/p>\n

turning up bummocks<\/p>\n

on the growlers and bergy bits<\/p>\n

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tonight I head inland across the rime<\/p>\n

home to a warm room<\/p>\n

and an old book on navigation and hazards<\/p>\n

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The leads will open in spring<\/p>\n

and the water sky returns, dark and hopeful<\/p>\n

icefeet slowly retreating to the beach.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Winter is here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This Christmas might be the first white Christmas for all of Canada since 1971. \u00a0 To celebrate, I’d like to point you to my friend Jeremy Hiebert’s stunning collection of photos of ice from Lake Okanagan. \u00a0 This is not a photo collection, it is a poem of the highest order. \u00a0 Sit still and watch the slideshow fill your eyes with the wonder of this earth. And to accent it here is a poem from me, using the wonderful language of ice: Crawl to the edge of the fast ice where the ice front holds still as the pancakes …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[24,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBp1-tr","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1825"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3114,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825\/revisions\/3114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}