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	ice:
	cold, white
	smoothness lost
	to a thousand
	blades of steel
	crossing, gauging, circling
	slivers thrown up
	by sliding feet
	the surface marred
	magic gone

	water
	(merely
	 melted ice):
	heated, channeled, sprayed
	on the scarred ice
	by a machine
	with slow ovals
	freezing
	unity restored

	i am
	the Zamboni driver