POETRY / Frozen/ David Hanlon

Photo by Erin McKenna on Unsplash

I remember it so vividly

From the opening

The camera skimming across

The cold

Cracked

Desert floor

I’m

10 years old

Standing there

Watching

Madonna standing there

Head down

Arms at her sides

Long

Jet-black hair

Ice-white skin

Synthesizers

Merging with strings

Silk black shawl

Snaking

Across the barren ground

To find her

Cloak her

She fell back

Hit the ground

Burst

Into a flock of dark birds

Flying

In all directions

If I could melt your heart

I’m

10 years old

Still

Note: This poem was written as a response to the music video to Madonna's single, ‘Frozen’, released in 1998. It also includes lyrics from the song.

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David Hanlon is a Welsh poet living in Cardiff. He is a Best of the Net nominee. You can find his work online in over 40 magazines, including Rust & Moth, Icefloe Press & Mineral Lit Mag. His first chapbook Spectrum of Flight is available for purchase now at Animal Heart Press. You can follow him on twitter @davidhanlon13 and Instagram @welshpoetd