Dark
Posing in downwashed blue
the winch waits for tourists
hidden like us, or lying too low
for the window to frame.
Ten rubbed rectangles adhere
to the dry side of the glass
sticking to solid as if
it were real. We know different.
The bow bursts, breasts a last throw
of crushed reds and ochres, spills
white spatters, desperate for land,
that arc towards us, ignore
the preening swan, make faces,
streak the buffered shore and fall
to earth, where scratched grasses
flinch at breakers, clutch straddled air
grasp the sun's light that takes
eight long minutes to arrive
and stitch themselves to the visible.
Back here we bide our time
keeping covert, non-committal,
our blind roots diving the dark.
the winch waits for tourists
hidden like us, or lying too low
for the window to frame.
Ten rubbed rectangles adhere
to the dry side of the glass
sticking to solid as if
it were real. We know different.
The bow bursts, breasts a last throw
of crushed reds and ochres, spills
white spatters, desperate for land,
that arc towards us, ignore
the preening swan, make faces,
streak the buffered shore and fall
to earth, where scratched grasses
flinch at breakers, clutch straddled air
grasp the sun's light that takes
eight long minutes to arrive
and stitch themselves to the visible.
Back here we bide our time
keeping covert, non-committal,
our blind roots diving the dark.
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