Mirage Six

Mirage Six
Ten Lines Found Poem
Doris Vallejo

Time contracts
between us
across the frigid snow
thawed by our heat.

Longing swells.
Tides of blood
thrum
in quickening beats.

Etched in moonlight
we measure
silence
nimbly spanned in a leap.

Tomorrow
nothing will remain
but frozen prints
of paws and feet.

[Mirage Six by Boris Vallejo]