Spell for Melting Ice

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Spell for Melting Ice</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Kate B Hall</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> holds a life in the palm of her hand and gives it a shake. For the reader the sensation is one of being caught in the blizzard feeling both wonder and disequilibrium. Hall's poems cast light on the troubling and the joyful; they blend myth and reality to forge a reckoning. In each one there is the sense of holding something or someone close-a dream a story a sister-of the breath we take before letting them go. </span></p>