Who will be the last one?
the child,
leaving
footprints
in the glacier

the last glacier,
the final
empire of ice
earth allows

who will be the first then
to see
the cold
and the ice
as a blessing?


Ben Nardolilli currently lives in New York City. His work has appeared in Perigee Magazine, Red Fez, Danse Macabre, The 22 Magazine, Quail Bell Magazine, Elimae, The Northampton Review, Local Train Magazine, The Minetta Review, and Yes Poetry. He blogs at mirrorsponge.blogspot.com and is trying to publish a novel.

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