Ice Worm Lament

Ice Worm Lament Cascade or Olympic glaciers may look barren and dead; But don’t be misled By their bleak surfaces of pale blue icy sheets on high peaks Or by distractions from vast vista sweeps. Nature only hides, it never lies, Revealing amazing wonders to curious eyes. Unknown to most, glaciers here are unique in this world, For within them elusive ice worms deeply reside tightly curled. Honored twice in poems by Robert Service; Able to rise thru glacial ice nightly to feed at the surface. One hopes these relicts of an ice age survive our foolish ways to stay And see the next one before they and their glaciers forever melt away.