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# Ice Skating on Lake Estancia
- URL: https://www.merionwest.com/ice-skating-on-lake-estancia/
- Published: 2025-06-09T23:35:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-30T17:04:20.000Z
- Description: Sara Fitzpatrick
- Author: Sara Fitzpatrick
- Tags: Poetry, Arts

> It used to be so simple: red dye made you 

> hyper. Now the whole tree vibrates 

> hummingbird the whole year, turns 

> the dogs mean. What naiad for a spring 

> that never comes? How to enchant 

> a disinterested land? The seasons never

> cared less for us, and it was always not

> at all. The impressionists needed Krakatoa. 

> Anak tantrums impotent today. We're too 

> busy with the news telling us to build our 

> houses far enough away that they don't burn

> each other. Have you seen such a sunset? 

> And who's ever heard of Indonesia? It's

> island for about to go under. So you go 

> to the desert and all around the desert 

> burns, alpine to red dust. Treeline to base 

> rock. New York commissions an obelisk

> of syringes full of red roses. The Times 

> deems it tacky. This place was a paradise

> an ice age ago.

### [Sara Fitzpatrick](https://sarafitzauthor.com/?ref=merionwest.com) works in animal welfare in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her poetry and fiction have been published in places like *The Shore*, *Feral Poetry*, *Tampa Review*, and *X-R-A-Y*. A collection, [*Bury me in the Sky*](https://nixesmate.pub/product/bury-me-in-the-sky-sara-comito/?ref=merionwest.com), was published in 2020 by Nixes Mate Books.