A Metaphorical Meltdown
“Juneau’s Mendenhall Glacier flooding sweeps away homes, surprises Alaska”
The Washington Post
The sun wipes the ice from the mountain’s face.
A swollen river starts its downhill race.
It swallows homes, erasing any trace.
Perhaps it’s time, at long last, to replace
the metaphor about a glacial pace.
Carl Kinsky is a poet pretending to be a lawyer in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri. His work has appeared in The Lyric, The Road Not Taken, The Ekphrastic Review, Lighten Up Online, Grand Little Things, and elsewhere.