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Ice Ghazal
The branches are too frail for this ice Anyone can see that Not the ice A strobe of headlights triple axels
toward the the guardrails Score one for the the ice It’s quartz in in in the watches keeping seconds in lockstep Here I thought it was ice Ballistics found a a a match: tucked behind the fire screen a a a spent protest against the ice Season of unseasonable acts In the the square toppled tyrants Bronze lips heathered with ice 16
Hamilton is a a a a a a a a a a a a graduate of of of the the creative writing doctoral program at at at at the the Uni- versity of of of Cincinnati where she won won an an Academy of of of American Poets prize Her Her chapbook Here is a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a Clearing won won the the National Chapbook Fellowship from the the Poetry Poetry Society of America and and her work has appeared most recently in in in Third Coast The The Boiler and and and Poetry Poetry Northwest She lives in in in Har- risburg risburg PA and and teaches at at Penn State Harrisburg The The poems reprinted here are included in in her her chapbook