s w i f t s  &  s l o w s: a quarterly of crisscrossings

Through the Ice
Nicolette Wong & David Heg

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Through the Ice

Speak, before the cadence
of frost sifts, our lines
arrested—in dreams

I have laid mute, heaving
winter’s cradle as crushed
words rippling across

your end of the trajectory.
In the shade you stand,
quiver as ink curls

as the wishes I once held,
a monochrome like-
ness to veil you upon—

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Photograph by David Heg.  Poetry by Nicolette Wong.

Nicolette Wong is the editor in chief of A-Minor Magazine & Press. Her writing has appeared in Posit, Bellingham Review, Crab Orchard Review, Escape Into Life, and other venues.
Visit her at nicolettewongwriter.com

David Heg is a photographer and educator currently manifesting in the wooded hills of eastern CT. His work has appeared in A-Minor Magazine, Posit, Otoliths, Blue Fifth Review, and other venues. He continues to remain grateful that his work has yet to be published posthumously.