Over the Water

the post midnight air thick with 

critter calls humidity and humiliation

the Pond Mills dock that rickety

collection of baby teeth boards

barely missing kissing the softly

lapping waves even in that 

blackness with only the barest 

shard of the moon cascading

along the breeze your brow

shone gold like the afternoon

sun a brazier of passion which

glowed across our features in

the night visible and vibrant

from vast distances you burned

while we reflected fading in puffs

of steam like the last gasps of

a fish flapping impotently on

the dock your words rippled

across the pond surface leaving

naked vacuum in their wake


trilling frogs and longslept cicadas

slowly filled the hollow night


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