Adamant and Ice
“Adamant and Ice” is a prose poem, a short and lyrically poetic text. Unlike most of my contemporaries’ take on the genre, mine looks back to the earliest, French examples, and, later, Clark Ashton Smith.
How your heart is as adamant! Nothing shall mar it, nothing shall mark it. Nothing shall move its depths to love, and I wallow loveless, and loving you.
How my heart is as ice! Loving shall melt it, loving shall waken it. Loving shall cause its pulse to sound, yet I wallow loveless, and loving you.
Adamant and ice, ice and adamant, would that love would change all between us.
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