Ice Climbing

Crystal blue ice, delicate and pristine.

Chandeliers and daggers,

Icicles bigger than your body!

To approach this frozen waterfall

and then interact with it

finding grooves to dig in a tool

tiny ledges to plant spikes

of crampon feet and so make

your way up higher, along the

steep frozen smoothness

to find the place where the slope

eases back and the ice turns flat

like the pond where you learned to skate

and first felt the fun of ice.