On the Water's Edge



Around the lake's edge ...

Thin ice is now wedged

Between shore and swans

Keeping them all from ...



Stale bread rolls

Some with mould 

Kids threw out

With gay shouts



Not seeing them stuck

By ice sheets tucked

So the swans gaze ashore

Oblivious, to the core ~



- Tristram



© Christopher W. Thomas

8:45pm Sun. Jan. 9th, 2000