athabasca
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You can also watch a performance of this poem here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QB1b0k363RI Once, I awoke on a glacier. An immense river of ice. Her meltwaters trickling in defined rivulets Here, and there, across Her body. Surrounded by enormous mountain ridges, fed by a massive ice field far on the peaks above. Circled by elders, tall sandstone
