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

Light green, and yellow green, and blue green, and grey green

And red green, 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