Glaciers From Above

Poetry
Written By Joshua Wait

by Lee Kuiper

appear as time in motion,
stretched and stretching down:
eons laying bare before you
like a naked body,
exposed to the sky
like an open picnic blanket;

the mountains are moving,
smearing down a gray, milky racetrack;
black streaks like cars in motion,
sinewing around bends,
parallel in their path,
reaching for the sea;

elastic bands of blue ice
sprinkled with rocky toppings, little bits;
tongues of taffy pulling, spewing out
from a hulking gravel behemoth
— a clunky and disjointed apparatus,
born all angular, dying smooth and quiet;

from above,
the Mountain-ice-movement
is one cohesive whole
—like Einstein’s spacetime—
groaning
for equilibrium.

Lee Kuiper’s formal education is in the visual arts, graduating with a BA in Media Production from Calvin University. Later, he fell in love with language and his focus on the visual arts expanded into poetry as it paints images on the mind. His poetry enables him to play with the beauty of images, words, and sounds. He currently lives in Reno and is studying to become a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. Instagram: @Kuiper337

Joshua Wait

Joshua Wait studied English at UC Berkeley. He wrote his undergraduate thesis on the relationship between art and poetry in the New York School. He received a Masters in Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary. He has served in programs for children, youth, and college students, in an organization addressing climate change, and in the tech industry as a CTO. He currently divides his time between his family and his artistic practice.

https://www.bluerivers.org
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