A haunting way to think of icebergs, moon-pieces fallen from the sky.  Especially when lit at night by their mother-ship’s beams.

‘Icebergs … fallen pieces of the moon.’

See also my bestellar review of this wonderful book, complete with a mosaic of quotations, metaphors, triologisms and other alluring Eskimo words.

Source: Barry Lopez, Arctic Dreams, 206

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