WATER  FREEZING

Does water know when it’s about

to freeze? To become ice? To drop
down to 32 degrees and the whole

lake or ice cube becomes solid?

Does it know this? Does it want

this? Would it rather be boiling

water and become a cup of tea?

Or be the wonderful  warm water

in my shower - pelting my back?

Do we know the slow degrees in

change or do we only know afterwards?

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2019