winter was slowly M-E-L-t-i-n-g.
and the Snow Queen, she was proud as anything
dressed all in black, no one noticed the contrast
and through the shadow (that was her) you could see a heart of ice
glistening translucent
a gallery of veins and arteries pumping
sugarsweet snowflakes through stickysweetsugar blood
but you never knew the colour
because translucency distorts, don't you know?
right now it appeared green
so she patrolled the icicles
and avalanches chased behind her
and the trees shook infront of her and threw confetti from their branches
to freeze the path ahead of her
so that she wouldn't trip and fall

one day the prideful Snow Queen
was striding through her garden
past little houses all in rows and across lakes and inbetween-through intersections
when she spotted something not in contrast
that matched her dress
a patch
of
dirt
.. and she !gasped
the blood (now yellowy-sunshine) pulsing through her iceheart
frrrroze
as the pressure-expansion-scientificmatters (that don't really matter) so vividly explain:
the heart of translucence and cold ice beauty did shatter into myriad pieces
and the violet blood squirted forth from these expanded vessels
the dripdroplets landed and smoothly penetrated that patch of dirt
who had solely destroyed
our beloved Queen
(for she is indeed dying)
and where ever we find the blood of the Lady
nestled underneath moist soil that so matches her garb
now bursts forth a crocus of brilliant purple
(so tiny the heralds of springtime)
and they wave in the light spring rain
which melts the Lady's gallery of ice into the gutters of our city streets
they wave to the Snow Queen, heartless beauty
as she scurries so gracefully soaring flying over puddles to the
mountain tops
where snow never melts not everever
so she may re-grow her heart
in time for her grand parade down the hillside
with avalanches chasing behind her
and periwinkle blood flowing cooly through a translucence
.. in time for next year's winter reign
she cleans her shadow dress in darkness
beneath a blanket of summer stars.