We walked out on the frozen lake and followed the lines of the cracks in the ice to a place that we knew wouldn't breaknAnd we lied down with your legs wrapped in minenLike two evergreens with branches intertwined; red spruce, white pine.nnI got so cold I walked back to the shore, but you stayed on the lake to explorenAnd I guess the ice was thin cause it caved innIf you hadn't started now, then you'd never beginnAnd where you had gone was everywhere you had beennAnd a sudden sorrow enveloped the windnWhale's tooth, snail's skin.nnI came back when a year had passednI walked carefully to where my memory remembered seeing you lastnAnd I lied down, my legs quite cold and tight in the solitary lightnThat only exists in the winter at nightnAnd I heard a voice coming up from the white, so I put my ear to the ice...nnI've come to tell you what I know I've seen inside a frozen ghostnAnd there's a place in every soul all made of songs of long ago