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I don't care for the stoppering punctuation at the end, but otherwise very nice. a sort of bigger-picture snap. K S On 09/08/06, sharon brogan <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I Don't Want to Outlive the Polar Bears > > She wakes in sheets sweat- > damp, nightmare-stained. > Flat white ceiling, ornamented > walls, closed shutters. Once, > in a dream, she saw another > dimension, as real as these > three. Sometimes, asleep > or awake, she feels the earth > slip beneath her like melting > ice; she watches someone > she loves drift away, quietly, > unprotesting, as the sea > rises and all she knows slowly > sinks and the polar bears shrink > each year in size and numbers. > The seals lay themselves on > anchored yachts. As the ground > diminishes our houses grow, > emptier with each generation, > silent and childless. Heat > is like another dimension, how > it wraps the body, invisibly, > palpably, in space, in time. > > > -- > ~ SB =^..^= > > http://www.sbpoet.com >