
[firn] an intermediate stage in the transformation of snow to glacier ice. snow becomes firn when it has been compressed so that no pore space remains between flakes or crystals, a process that takes less than a year.
she’s a drift she’s blinding white in heaps that never left in blazing circumstances it took no time at all for time to be so unforgiving so she waits in a silent in-between in a drowning spark for the escape to suspend itself in the glaze