Randall Compton

Interglacial

Pushing down the permanent snow line,
cold snouts of glaciers shoved forests flat,
heaved earth and trimmed rock over grasslands.
Rognons mounted over murdered domains.

We were born in a flash off winter’s mirror,
a single sweat drop of time. Safe in our
temperate spell, we deny the rimed flume’s return,
the bitter flow bearing a slow single measure.

Frosty eons will lid green nature’s x’d eyes
as Earth rolls on artic bed, snugging up ice sheets
and coiling fervid dreams, plotting an age without us.
For now, we restrain blizzards of blank space,

and our intertwined thermal column rises,
aloof to smoking cold air and all icy threats
of solar withdrawal. Together in our cirque,
we blaze, dancing and dreaming only fire.

Author Bio

Randall Compton currently lives in Longview, Texas where he teaches writing and literature at LeTourneau University. His poetry has recently appeared or been accepted in Southwestern American Literature, Inscape, Triggerfish Critical Review, and Lumina.