Nigliktok

_____Floes grow out
crooked
__________chrome-blue

_____skeins of hair
crone
__________color of ash

_____prone at
world's end.
__________To pretend

_____heaven shall be
more of the same
__________is our faith.

_____The snow this night
is underscored
__________bright, razor-shadowed.

_____It falls in soft
white swirls.
__________Feeble

_____hurricane
of midges
__________circles the Coleman light.