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published
in collection, Moving Still, 2009,
Cinnamon
Press, ISBN 978-1-905614-69-1
Moving Still
Franz
Josef Glacier, New Zealand
I
touched a glacier today,
huge
and glassy-smooth
and
of gemstone turquoise blue:
too
cold to wet my hand,
too
colossal to see its crown,
still,
yet moving still
pushed
by snow years ago,
200,000
times slower
than
a river.
It
moved me as the sandfly had moved me.
After
an insatiable itch to see it
I
was left in awe
at
what something so small could do,
and
that something so large and still, was moving
and
could move me too.
Barbara Dordi
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