On the Shore of a Frozen Lake (based on The Snow Queen)
her fingers scratch against the leaf
singing over its veins
glass blue ice shards shimmer behind her.
when he came next to her,
she glanced at him with lacey amusement
and he loved at her, but she sashayed
away the sandstone icicles watching her go
and the lake arched on the horizon
murmuring and tracing her path.