Winner of the 2025 Creatives Flash Poetry Contest, kindly supported by Fort William Mountain Festival and the Highland Bookshop.
Weak layers persist
buried in old snowpack
deep below the surface.
Hard to trigger
they remain unstable;
avalanching from thin spots or
round the edges.
The moment is unannounced.
When it goes, it goes.
Lead image: On Liathach by Rob Lovell