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Her Guide by Jamie Jansen
from Legacy 2022
Her Guide
by Jamie Jansen
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A glint of steely starlight
The thrust of falling hail on ice
Shattering into a thousand tiny echoes
On the River of January
Mist rolls and breaks
Atoms, splinters of the earthbound sea
Reaching down in tendrils to its reflection
On the River of January
A lonely figure stands on the bank
Staring at her reflection
Pockmarked from hail on the water
Stained by the shadows of starlight
Chocked by the mists
Written on the River of January
All at once the figure is crossing;
Crossing the deep River of Winter
The mists slowly recede
The punch of hail on ice weakens
The steel gaze of fate flickers
And dies
For our traveler is over, and no longer at their mercy
And in the River of January
Just where it fades into the warm blue sky
The wayfaring stranger sees a smooth and lovely reflection
Of herself
And her Guide
