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<div class="box"> <div class="inner-box"> <tr> <td> <div class="raleway">a morning's draft of ice</div>\ what of the sky, blue and cream and quiet, aubergine? you think this, and the ice holds that saddened light (or probably you came here saddened). and it makes of everything only the stillness, only a white. white and you came to it like an upturned flower growing down, as you have come to grow, in reverse flower's pose, white, beholden to illumination in the tradition of epiphanies and leaves (should you leave?). but the ice has made its clear position: this is the city, every earthen tone below the sky (art deco, telephone poles, the labor of still living trees and, as well, the dead) and the water stains, too, of this cloudful morning—all of it is rendered tin, or porcelain. you can't see through it. the slab of ice holds the day and you are gladdened by it— it dies a little. warmth like this is liable to take you to the ground. but if you go you will go and say nothing. not like the ice after all, which might swallow the sun and be only the sound. not the feeling at all— how could it? only the breaking. </td> </tr> </div> </div>

<div class="box"> <div class="inner-box"> <tr> <td> <div class="raleway">draft of ice: noontide</div>\ <span class="tab">is every want a hunger or a thirst—</span> anyway, the sun sets. you know the way of ice by looking at in the last light. it is slicker than indecision, darker than nothing—your inside rounds against the glass and finds its blackness—that is what comparison does to you—don't break during the night you tell the ice, telling yourself it would be a shame to go that way, after making it somehow through the day. you tell yourself you are living in the moment. check no messages. answer no calls. you're being as fragile as the water hanging—it's as if you are—as if you have a mind of gravity but no awareness in your body—or it's as if the unbent laws of the world have merited letting nothing go </td> </tr> </div> </div>

<div class="box"> <div class="inner-box"> <tr> <td> <div class="raleway">evening's glance of ice</div>\ <span class="tab">glass begets glass - the anniad </span> maybe it's safest when you pray to yourself about yourself— <span class="tab">here you imagine another body. here, </span> <span class="tab">if you'd like, is an icicle. you can touch it. but you won't. </span> <span class="tab">which doesn't make it unreachable. </span> <span class="tab">you've felt ice before, and whatever is the number of times </span> <span class="tab">that is enough, you've met it, face to face.</span> <span class="tab">you hold yourself. and you look, and on your side </span> <span class="tab">you literally see reflection, a manner of yourself </span> <span class="tab">in the color of darkness barely opened. </span> <span class="tab">when you were younger you would stay and watch. </span> <span class="tab">from the other side, the ice collects the leftovers </span> <span class="tab">of streetlights, finishes their thoughts,</span> <span class="tab">lets them rest and lose their color</span> —let me not be cold. keep me. let me, unopened, through the night. </td> </tr> </div> </div>

Make this be about the light coming through a window

<<set _now to new Date()>>\ <<set $hour to _now.getHours()>>\ /* Note: Midnight = 0 */\ <span id="poem">Darkness</span>\ <<nobr>>\ /*1 Morning 8-13 – 8am-1pm */ <<if $hour >= 8 and $hour <= 13>> /*this timer makes sure this loads first so it doesn't break*/ <<timed 0s>> <<replace "#poem">><<display morning>><</replace>> <<addclass "body" "morning">> <</timed>> <</if>> /*2 Afternoon 14-18 – 2pm-6pm */ <<if $hour >= 14 and $hour <= 18>> /*this timer makes sure this loads first so it doesn't break*/ <<timed 0s>> <<replace "#poem">><<display afternoon>><</replace>> <<addclass "body" "afternoon">> <</timed>> <</if>> /*3 Night 19-23 – 7pm-11pm */ <<if $hour >= 19 and $hour <= 23>> /*this timer makes sure this loads first so it doesn't break*/ <<timed 0s>> <<replace "#poem">><<display night>><</replace>> <<addclass "body" "night">> <</timed>> <</if>> /*4 FarNight 0-4 – Midnight – 4am*/ <<if $hour >= 0 and $hour <= 4>> /*this timer makes sure this loads first so it doesn't break*/ <<timed 0s>> <<replace "#poem">><<display farnight>><</replace>> <<addclass "body" "farnight">> <</timed>> <</if>> /*5 Darkness 5-7 – 5am – 7am*/ <<if $hour >= 5 and $hour <= 7>> /*this timer makes sure this loads first so it doesn't break*/ <<timed 0s>> <<replace "#poem">><<display far-night>><</replace>> <<addclass "body" "darkness">> <</timed>> <</if>> <</nobr>>\

<div class="box"> <div class="inner-box"> <tr> <td> <div class="raleway">draft of ice: far late</div>\ you know the false compliment of incandescence won't warm you through the night, can't, but here it is a kind of home—the other <span class="tab">color is a spiritual, the lyrics withheld</span> <span class="tab">(like eyes adjusting</span> <span class="tab">in the dark) an abstraction of ice (white, somehow</span> <span class="tab">even in the orange-brown night) </span> <span class="tab">finding itself</span> against the first. there is no name for it. call what you have yourself to call: a skin tone </td> </tr> </div> </div>

<div class="box"> <div class="inner-box"> <tr> <td> <div class="raleway">in the darkness shy</div>\ <span class="tab">"You need the untranslatable ice to watch"</span> <span class="tab2">- Gwendolyn Brooks, "leaves from a loose-leaf war diary"</span> of myself and thinking in the dark the dark made me small and my small fingers trailed the wall and the wall stood as i stood as i went from door to door wondering as a child wonders and afraid to open one and find someone <span class="tab">—maybe someone sleeping</span> or worse awake as i'm awake now here my eyes upon the floor </td> </tr> </div> </div>