On Thin Ice

he said that they

drove their cars onto

the thick ice

of the lake

left them there

until it thawed

sinking their vehicles

right to the bottom

the bubbles that formed

when the cars went under

screaming for air

and a sense of closure

the waves have a color

it turns to a deathly

dark shade when it laps

at the under carriage

of the trucks that are

parked there, not knowing

that they are being swallowed

in one mouthful, a lake

so enormous

its darkness is a hue

that people see

and know that they

can make things disappear

inside of it