drawn out, drawn back

Ice that books say shouldn’t be
    in the fridge at all
curiously takes to itself properties
    of food around about.

I’d swear the last piece I fished out
was a sliver of salmon
    glamorous, sparkling
in its last moments
till it returned to the water
    that flourished it.

Is that how it was for you
    in those final moments;
Breath, or something shaped
    like breath,
drawn out, drawn back
    to Aonach Mor?

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