Marsh

The year was unrelenting

We argued all the time

I obliterate your positions

And you know just how to obliterate mine

Online, we talk

Or say we talk, mute and block

I should turn this thing off

I know I should give it up

So I took a walk down the road

And at the bottom of the hill

A little river overflowed

And a swamp in the eddy had filled the ditch

With bullrushes and reeds

Black water puckered with bodies

Water striders, mosquitoes pierce my jeans

Try to really see the beauty

The blue and green

And light green

And yellow green

And blue green

And grey green

And red green

And muddy green

But all I can see today is black

Like the new moon sky

Like when you close your eyes

Those stars don't guide you anywhere

But there is no other there

No any other anywhere, but here

Now it falls, the first tear

And when they hold the election

This argument may end

But everything depends on it still

If we don't argue, they will

I can't even watch the starlings fly

When I know I can't count even on this

Tangle of grasses

The chance is this

Everything balanced on a kiss

Penetration of peel and pith

A body puckers the surface to take a breath