A Poem's First Fragment

"Skaters never find the thin ice until it cracks"

See there, I am now letting you into my most private world. Most of my poems start with a phrase that pops into my head and stays there until I build a poem around it.

The rest start with a theme, say bored, old-moneyed rich people on a train like in my poem "Speed of Light - Revisited" (see Poetry) that I expand on.

But, tonight, I only have the phrase "Skaters never find the thin ice until it cracks" to gnaw on...