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# Frost - A poem
- URL: https://www.cambriastories.net/frost-a-poem/
- Published: 2023-04-12T15:34:39.000Z
- Updated: 2023-09-07T16:56:24.000Z
- Author: Cambria Stories
- Tags: Waiting for a Hunter's Moon

Serialisation of Waiting for a Hunter's Moon 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.

Serialisation of *Waiting for a Hunter's Moon* with permission by Simon Smith. The book is published by [Cambria Publishing ](https://cambriabooks.co.uk/?ref=cambriastories.net)and the paperback can be bought [HERE](https://www.cambriabooks.co.uk/product/waiting-for-a-hunters-moon/?ref=cambriastories.net)

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