trade
or
barter with: swimming
and teeming with
unfinished
(witnesses?)
his inner-workings and
outer-trappings
by
the mis-stepping foot,
by
the leg/ just how
he left
her and what was left of her
by the lake
and
couldn't
stop
returning
time and again, the
slightest
colors of the leaves
unearthing
a
(childlike
adoration) his agitation
subsuming
shallows as the deepest
reaches of
his soul
contract and gasp
for proof
of life in the
presence of
its opposite
