Sunday, April 8, 2012

Bath

When you would become the mirror

a shine collected in hazel iris

a shine collector you took

what long ago I threw


thrown back


the leaden weights affixed to swimmer's feet

bite your lip before you turn and walk


tell me what you feel in sunlight

now in dark


How the brine will

buoy a body


while insects in rattling oaks

sang summer months, we were together

practicing the deadman's float in your

parent's pool


and if you had read to me in the tub

maybe it would have all appeared

like an image seen in fever


But for how that water was only

built for one.


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