Smithereens Press Chapbooks Atoll by Dylan Brennan | Page 12
Bodies of Water
From Trasimeno to Rockall
all bodies of water deepen
in the absence of a solar device.
Would you survive here
in the centre of a lake –
you, with your groping necessity
for live flesh in the dark?
Would you hurtle through space?
Would you wade out into blackness
throat deep in amniotic ink?
Would your lungs remember
how once they breathed fluid
or would you stretch out
to grab this hand
begging to be dragged home
across scorched earth?
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