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Crisp noon
Dead Eskimo Rising
(for William Scott Home)
The yellow horizon grooves
in serrated ice light corks;
a milk crest tide meets
in an ivory ellipsis of broach
with shaped lobster crabs
arms crawling toward a
finely spun shadow pillars.
An eskimo’s face disperses
in a technicolor lake, that queue
of changing channels
Above the green ice fire
sounding a bullhorn
Crusting blank quarters
in his eyes, pausing
to stare in midriff.