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# Frost
- URL: https://www.cambriastories.net/frost-3ee309b8cc4b/
- Published: 2023-04-07T19:14:45.000Z
- Updated: 2025-01-28T11:03:38.000Z
- Description: A poem for Poetry Month by Simon Smith
- Author: Cambria Stories
- Tags: Newsletter, #Migrated-1738062183431, #Import 2025-01-28 11:03

#### A poem for Poetry Month by Simon Smith

Here, on the estuary’s forgotten shore,  
 away from the road’s tarmac gravity,  
 the dark begins to pool early against   
 high boulder banks and the dune’s downslope.

Another swarm of dreams is scattering south.  
 With a luthier’s ear for resonance  
 and absences, the river channels out  
 its own meandering chamber-course.

Snow stillness; snow silence. And yet no snow:  
 “Too cold for it”. Deep cold, more than enough   
 to snuff the stars into a charred blackness  
 and scorch this great dark bore hole to the moon.

Everything is drawn of its ghosts  
 and now the frost begins to populate  
 this void, creeping from every crack and crevice,   
 extrapolating brittle feathered forms  
 so exact   
*humerus to radius*  
 so intricate  
*radius to ulna*;  
 each shiny new angle geared for flight  
 yet still grounded come first light of morning.

This poem is reproduced with permission from *Waiting for a Hunter’s Moon* by Simon Smith published by Cambria Publishing and available to buy [HERE](https://www.cambriabooks.co.uk/product/waiting-for-a-hunters-moon/?ref=cambriastories.net)

![Waiting for a Hunter’s Moon by Simon Smith](https://storage.ghost.io/c/30/37/30377e2c-e75e-4c96-bd46-b73fc629b31e/content/images/2025/01/https-3a-2f-2fsubstack-post-media-s3-amazonaws-com-2fpublic-2fimages-2fc5d5baa2-6a16-4836-beb1-60b71d30920c_800x1219-jpeg.jpg)

Waiting for Hunter’s Moon