Quicksilver
The lake freezes over

By the lake library,
Where Sheridan road bends,
Silver water quickens into plates
That sail on a steel blue sea,
Joining like a gathering of the clans
Until there is only one iceland,
Mercury made touchable.
It isn’t Icarus at all
--rise and fall—
but Mercury
trying wave after wave
to touch the sun, or be the moon.
Is it love or hate that moves
The heights and depths once each year
To make him mirror of the sky eye?
A spell of forgetting…

Underneath all that stillness,
He is Hermes, silver darter, godspeaker,
When he remembers, he springs to life,
Rising into sky as rain or summer storm
Cycling until the leaves are old.
Until that one time when even the changer
Is changed.

MaryAnn Bennett Rosberg, M.A. is a published poet, a novelist, and editor. She is also a Reiki master, NLP practitioner and certified teacher of the Human Capacities Training Program of Drs. Jean Houston and Robert Masters. MaryAnn attends a Mystery School in New York where she deepens into the world myths that greatly influence her poetry. For more information: http://www.americanatheneum.com/pages/maryannrosberg/mr-master.html