beckoned hither to be sprang upon..
appendages freely swing and dangle
dangle mesmerised by a mountain hypnotic
a majestic peak niveous pristine hallucinatory..
pearl-fanged thick syrupy icicles hang alluringly
still so still to-and-fro they whirl
enchantingly appear to reach out
like distended arms of giant flash-frozen orangutans..
swirl-magnetised
the climbers playfully cuckoo
enticed in the thrall gripping them
the crackling frozen corkscrew limbs proudly burn
amadou..
neath the ashen moon sheen
the steely summit lustrous await them
and giddy in the drip-drip silence
and by the gradual dimming twilight torchlight
the sluing scalers bound higher..
the frigid heat permeates the numbness
gritted teeth and determination
in all its rictus grin
the realised wish rattles
rattles ever louder ever closer
the glace of rarefied status
to display the reined in possession
helpless..
electric leviathans circle figure eights
sirens sing on acephalous
dawn-drenched
the glacier slaked
the sanguine summit collapses crashes sheer
a toppled lake of guillotines..
