Guernica Magazine

The End of Ice

Photo by Amy Sacka, taken at Perchville in Tawas, Michigan, in February 2023.

The expanding ice has its own language. It sounds like a sea creature, warbling and reverberating with an otherworldly howl. The first time I heard it in 2017, I thought, ; I checked my feet to make sure I was still standing on something. “Ice earthquake,” a nearby angler said

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